Ayaquica (MH664r)
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 somewhat vulnerable man, naked, full-bodied, standing, and gesturing by raising his left arm.
Stephanie Wood
Other example of glyphs for the name or vulnerable status of Ayaquica show similarly vulnerable men or children. Some have tears streaming down their faces. One unusual example of Ayaquica shows the head of a woman.
A Google search of Ayaquica will bring up many names of people of Mexican heritage alive today. Some have suspected that this is a Quechua name from South America, and if it proves to be true, that is just a coincidence, because it is definitely a Nahua name.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
solo, solito, solitario, triste, vulnerable, nombres de hombres
ayac, no one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayac
ica, with, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ica-0
Con Nadie, o Solito
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 664r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=408&st=image.
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