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mas.u:ru_~ was.u:ru- ‘yesterday'

wal.u:ru ‘day before yesterday' (except in Salinas)

As may be seen in Figure 5-2, the semantic field
of aruma_ ~ arama and arumanti still lacks a precise formu-
lation, but certain outlines are clear. The glosses at
first seemed bewilderingly in conflict: ‘morning' and
‘night’. To complicate matters further, aruma means
‘orange color' in Jopoqueri. Two sources, one from Moro-
comarca and the other from Jopoqueri, accepted ‘time
period from midnight to dawn' as a roughly accurate defi-
nition of aruma (Morocomarca) and arumanti (Jopoqueri).
According to a La Paz source, the period begins at bed-
time: arum chiga.ru is ‘at dusk' (Spanish al atardecer)
or ‘at night' (Spanish por la noche). A source in Calacoa

said the following:

Aruma.:.w.x.i.W, iki.nta.w.ja.:tan.
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late

‘It's already fae

} >» let's go to bed.'
In La Paz, Calacoa, and Huancané, aruma also means ‘early

morning, before daylight' as in the following:

Aruma.t sara.nani.xa. ‘Let's go early (before it gets
go 433 light).' (Huancané)
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