Huelicuac (MH878v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huelicuac (perhaps “Right At That Moment”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing the viewer’s right. His black hair seems to fly backwards, as though he were in a hurry. The name seems to be a reference to time (such as “at that moment” or “right then”). But one wonders whether the implication is that he was a person who was “on time,” having rushed to get somewhere.
Stephanie Wood
This name could be spelled Huel Icuac, as it involves two words (huel, an intensifier, and icuac, “when”). For another expression about time, see Cuelachic below.
Stephanie Wood
juo huelicuac
Juan Huel Icuac
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
adverbios, a tiempo, puntual, exacto, preciso, en ese momento, nombres de hombres

huel icuac, at that moment, right then, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huel-icuac
posiblemente, Precisamente en Ese Momento
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 878v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=829&st=image.
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