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k"ita ‘messenger; send a messenger'

mang'a ~ mag'a ‘food; eat, feed'

mink'a ‘help; help' (Morocomarca)

nink"ara ‘a while ago; be a while ago' (La Paz)

pug"a ‘full; pay a bill (fulfill)'

gillga ‘letter; write'

qinaya ‘cloud; cloud' (La Paz)

guna ‘square stone used to grind corn; grind corn' (La Paz)

q'ipi ‘bundle; carry a bundle on the back'

A special kind of noun/verb root is the syntactic

filler inchi, which occurs to fill space while the speaker

searches for a word. !¢ Examples:
Uka.ta.w (inchi) kuna.sa. . . ‘Then (uh) what. . .'
(Calacoa)

inchi.w.iri.x (Calacoa) -wa- verbal derivational 'distancer'
-iri  nominalizer

inchi.ru.x (Sitajara) -ru ‘to, at’

inchi.ta (Calacala) -ta ‘of, from’