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jisk'a  pacha.ki '‘small' (Morocomarca)
jisk'a ‘little size’

5-2.6 Temporals’

This important class contains a number of roots
and a few root-like recurrent partials referring to seg-
ments of time. In all dialects the class has taken in
certain Spanish time words which pattern like the Aymara

roots.
5-2.61 Full temporal roots

Full temporal roots may be defined as potentially
occurring as heads in phrases or compounds with jich"a
"now' as modifier, or as modifiers in phrases or com-
pounds with uru 'day' as head. These two roots, which
occur in all dialects, themselves belong to the class of
full temporal roots as they occur in the combination
jich".u:ru as well as in other combinations. Full temporal
roots, including those that are Spanish loans, are the
following (for dialectal distribution of native Aymara

temporal roots, see Figures 5-1 and 5-2):
5-2.61.1 Heads with jich"a as modifier
alwa < Spanish alba ‘dawn’, ‘early, morning'

arama ~ aruma ‘night, morning, period from midnight to
dawn, before daylight’