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arumanti ~ arumant"i ‘morning, tomorrow, period from midnight
to dawn'

arumarji ~ arumirja ‘morning’
+ i

jaypu ~ jayp"u ~ jayp'u ‘afternoon, evening’

mara 'year'

p"axsi ‘month'

g'alta ~ q"alt'i ‘morning, tomorrow’ (Bertonio 1603b cited
*galta)

ratu < Spanish rato 'while'

simana < Spanish semana tweek'®

tarti < Spanish tarde ‘afternoon, evening, late’
timpu < Spanish tiempo ‘time’

urasa ~ -wrasa ~ -wsa < Spanish horas ‘hours’
uru_ ‘day'

By a morphophonemic rule affecting nouns with initial
/j3V/;,; jich"a may optionally lose its sequence /ji/ (see

4-3.12.1).
5-2.61.2 Modifiers with uru as head

chika ‘halfway, middle' (also borderline positional )

jich"a ~ juch"a?

‘now