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k"uyu ~ k"u: ~ k"u_~ k"uri "that way over yonder, way over
yonder'

5-2.21 Variable roots

The variant /jaka/ occurs in Morocomarca, in
jak.sa tugi.t"a ‘around here', but has not been heard
elsewhere; /aka/ occurs everywhere. A possible variant
of uka, /ukaya/, occurs in Sitajara, in ukay.ti ‘is it
that?' (See 7-2.21.1 for another analysis of this
form. )

In Jopoqueri and Socca, uwa sometimes occurs
instead of uka in combination with -ta, sounding like
[wat]. Hardman has suggested (personal communication)
that uwa is probably a remnant of a proto-daqi demonstra-
tive *uwa, since the three-way distinction aka - uka - uwa
still exists in modern Kawki and the related form watga
occurs in Jaqaru.

The base morpheme k"aya reduces to /k"a:/ when
acting as modifier in a noun phrase (by a regular morpho-
phonemic rule; see 4-3.22.14) in the following dialects:
La Paz, Juli, Socca, Huancané, Jopoqueri, and Salinas.

In Huancané, Salinas, and Juli the reduced form with or
without vowel length may also occur with complement/
relational suffixes, e. g. in Juli k"aya.na ~ k"a.na
‘over there’; in La Paz only the full form occurs with

complement/relationals. In Calacoa and Sitajara the