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aka _tuq_ laru.n ‘on this side' (Juli)
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aka ‘this’ tugi ‘around’

laru 'side' < Spanish lado

But successive noun phrases having a different immediate
constituency from the above do not necessarily manifest
the three-vowel rule; see 7-4.2 and additional examples

cited by Hardman et al. (1975:3.373-374).
4-3.22.16.2 Noun suffixes

In all dialects the noun suffixes -layku ~ -rayku
‘on account of', -pura ‘between, among', and -kama ‘among,
all, each, up to, as far as, until' act like heads of
noun phrases, |9 requiring that modifiers having more than
three vowels drop the last one, except that in cases of
modifiers that are themselves noun phrases the rule is
variable as indicated above.

In Huancané the personal possessive suffixes and
the complement/relational suffix -taki 'for' usually fol-

low the three-vowel rule. Examples:

kufitu. ja ‘my story' kuntu  ‘story' /-ja/ Ip possessive

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< Spanish cuento

awich .ja ‘my grandmother’ awicha 'grandmother'
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