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5-2.1]1 Variable roots

5-2.11.1 kama ~ kamisa

The only dialect encountered so far having the
allomorph /kama/ is Salinas. Elsewhere /kamisa/ occurs.
In dialects having /kamisa/, /kama-/ exists only as an
interrogative verb root in two verbs, the first used to
inquire about someone's situation when the answer is
expected to be negative and the second used to ask

what someone said.

kama.cha.na -cha verbal derivational/verbalizer
kam.sa.na sa.na ‘to say'

5-2.11.2 qawg"a ~ g'awqa ~ g"awg"a ~ g"ayg'a
/qawq"a/ (La Paz, Huancané, Sitajara)
/q"awga/ ‘(Morocomarca)
/q"awq"a/ (Huancané, Jopoqueri)

/q"ayq'"a/ (Salinas)

*/qayq"a/ (Reported to occur in parts of Ingavi [depart-
ment of La Paz] and in Chile)

* rgayq'ta/ (Bertonio 1603b)

It is possible that the /q"a/ ending certain
allomorphs above may consist of /q/ plus -ja ‘amount,

quantity’ (see 5-3.12.3).