Aoc Ichan (MH629v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Aoc Ichan (“No Longer His Home,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a home (chantli). Below the building is a man's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The man's eye is closed, which may indicate that he is deceased. This may serve as a semantic indicator that the house no longer aoc belongs to anyone.
Stephanie Wood
The use of the adverb aoc across this digital collection is something worthy of close study. Adverbs are somewhat rare, and this negative one might be useful for studying changes in daily life that could be related to emotion. See, for example, Aoc Tocniuh, below. An empty house conjures up the loss of life from epidemics in the colonial context, but if this name predates European colonization, it could simply refer to a house that was abandoned through natural death. This is also worth pursuing for a greater understanding of naming practices. Why would parents give a name such as this to a baby? Was it a metaphor for an orphan, a wanderer/vagrant, a vacant mind, or the like?
Stephanie Wood
antonio
aoq~chan
Antonio Aoc Ichan (or Aoquichan)
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
aoquichan, casa vacía, muerto, muerte, nombres de hombres
aoc, no longer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/aoc
chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
i- (possessive pronoun), third person singular, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
Ya No Es Su Hogar
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 629v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=341st=image.
This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).
