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Spanish Aymara

ovexa [obesa] > iwisa (pre-1630)

oveja [obexa ] > iwija (early post-1630)
oveja " > uwija (contemporary )

The reason for the original borrowing's shift in initial
vowel from the back mid /o/ (whose reflex in Aymara would
be /u/) to the front /i/ is unknown; it may be that a vowel
harmony rule was then in effect in Aymara (see 4-3.22.11).

6salinas has a morphophonemic rule whereby the
/k/ of this suffix becomes /j/ in certain environments;
see 4-3.22.23.

7 Wuancané has a morphophonemic rule whereby
/-raki/ becomes /-raj/ before -chi NI (see 4-3.22.23).

8 see also 4-3.22.23 and 7-2.21.4.

2Although *a:.fna did not occur in the data, the
existence of a:.xaru.wa.fia implies its existence, if only
as an underlying form. The suffix -xaru- requires a pre-
ceding consonant, but here the length is retained by a
morphophonemic rule (see 4-3.22.15) whereby vowel length
in verb roots is retained before consonant-requiring suf-
fixes. Bertonio (1603b) cited several verb roots with
long vowel, including ta:-, the semantic equivalent of

La Paz aya.fa.

10. neakers using /-ja/ lp possessive have no
homophony with the final suffix -xa in this instance
(see the examples under 3-2.3), but dialects having
/-xa/ 1p possessive do have homophony with final suffix
-xa. Thus, in the latter the following is either ‘my
cat' or 'the/a cat': p"isi.xa. Of course, the Ip suffix
/-xa/ may be followed by the final suffix -xa giving

p"isi.xa.xa ‘my cat’.

UI correspondences of /:/, /j/; /n/, and /nh/ occur
in 2+3 Future, and of /:/, /n/, and /nh/ in 2>1 Future
(see Figure 6-3).