Ayaquica (MH664v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ayaquica (or Ayac Ica, “With No One” or “He is Alone”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a man's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right and facing downward. Tears stream down his cheeks, which supports a reading of his being emotional, whether he is sad because he is alone or because someone is departed (yaqui).
Stephanie Wood
This name--if deciphered correctly--is a complete sentence whereby the verb (to be) is implied, something very common in Nahuatl alphabetic and hieroglyphic writing. This sentence also includes a preposition (with, ica) and an indefinite pronoun (no one, ayac). Perhaps it is another way of referring to an orphan, a widow, or a widower.
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
tears, lágrimas, tristeza, sadness, alone, 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
Nadie Consigo
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 664v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=409&st=image.
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