Ayaquica (MH495v)

Ayaquica (MH495v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ayaquica (or Ayac Ica, literally "With No One" or "Alone") shows a man's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Tears stream down his cheeks, which supports a reading of his being emotional; perhaps he is sad because he is alone. But the tears could also be a phonetic indicator that this name begins with A-, and if so, then this is a compound glyph, not a simplex.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Other glyphs for this same name will show tears running down the cheek of a man’s head. Or just a head of a forlorn looking person, male or female. Perhaps it is another way of referring to a widow or a widower.

This is a full sentence with the verb implied (typically, with Nahuatl, this is the case): He is no longer with anyone. We are tracking the use of possessives and adverbs such as "ayac." Other examples of full sentences appear below.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

petro
ayaq~ca

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Ayaquica (or Ayac Ica)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adverb
phrase or sentence
possessive pronoun
indefinite "ayac"
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Emotions
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

lágrimas, tears, trizteza, solo, solito, solitario, triste, vulnerable, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ayac, no one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayac
ica, with, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ica
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Nadie Consigo

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

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).

Orthography: 
"t" for d
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Ayaquica (MH526r)

Icnotlacatl (MH490v)

Aoc Tocniuh (MH489v)

Ayaquica (MH629v)

Ayaquica (MH535v)

Ayaquica (MH855r)

Ayaquica (MH664r)

Ayaquica (MH664v)