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
peo ayaquica
Pedro Ayaquica (or Ayac Ica)
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
alone, solito, viudo, soldero, nombres de hombres
ayac, no one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayac
ica, with, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ica
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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