Ayaquica (MH855r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ayaquica (or Ayac Ica, literally "With No One" or "Alone") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a woman's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. She wears the classic woman's hairstyle, the neaxtlahualli. Perhaps she is meant to be a man's deceased wife, a metaphor for his being alone.
Stephanie Wood
Ayaquica (or Ayac Ica) is typically a man's name, and it usually involves a glyph of a man's head or full body. So, this example of a woman's head is unusual. It is as though the generic Ayaquica is male, and here it had to be spelled out as female for some reason.
Perhaps it is another way of referring to an orphan, a widow, or a widower. For other suggestions of emotion and of sentences with the implied verb "to be," please see below.
A Google search of Ayaquica will bring up many names of people of Mexican heritage alive today. Some have assumed that this name is a Quechua name from South America, and even if that is true, it is just a coincidence, because it is definitely a Nahua name.
Stephanie Wood
peo ayaquica
Pedro Ayaquica (or Ayac Ica)
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
solo, sola, alone, solito, solita, viuda, viudo, soltero, nombres de hombres, mujer, mujeres, axtlacuilli, neaxtlacualli
ayac, no one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayac
ica, with, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ica-0
Nadie Consigo
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 855r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=782&st=image
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