micqui (MH547r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph of a deceased person (micqui) shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. He has a standard haircut. His face is painted dark gray or black as a sign that he has died.
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The gloss reads: "here are those who died." The simplex glyph is just one of several men who had died. We are including this glyph twice--once as as a conjugated verb "omic" ("he died"), echoing the gloss, and once here, as a noun. These losses of human life were owing to the epidemics that came with the introduction of unknown diseases from Europe.
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yzcate yn omique
izcate in omique (or izcateh in omiqueh, with the glottal stops)
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1560
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la muerte, morir, muerto, difunto
micqui, deceased person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/micqui
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 547r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=173&st=image.
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