175

juma.taki ‘for you' juma 2p -taki 'for'
12

jiwas_.taki ‘for us' jiwasa 4p
123

In the following example (still for Huancané), the
possessive -ma 2p keeps a previous vowel although four
vowels precede it, but loses its own vowel before a follow-
ing -taki, indicating that when more than one suffix sub-
ject to the three-vowel rule occurs on a noun, the rule

applies only to the suffix occurring last on the stem.

yapu.naka.m_.taki "for my fields' yapu ‘field
b2 34 5 -naka plural
The frozen suffixes -ma ~ -mma and -ta ~ -tta

that occur on certain kinship terms in Jopoqueri (see
5-3.11.14 and 5-3.11.15) may be considered reduced forms
of the noun roots mama 'mother' and tata 'father' that
lost their first vowel because it was the third in

sequence in the new stem. Examples:

pichu.mma ‘father's youngest brother's wife'
] 3

lari.t_ ta ‘uncle’

12 3