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ma: uk.ch'a ‘a while’ (Jopoqueri)
yat may.ch'a.x ‘in some places' (La Paz)

tuk.ch'a.:.fi.kama.xa ‘meanwhile’ (Tschopik 1948:108)

5-3.12.3 - da ‘amount, quantity'

This suffix occurs on only a few roots and is
difficult to distinguish from a homophonous allomorph
of the Class 2 noun suffix -jama 'like', except when it
(-ja 'quantity') occurs before a complement/relational
suffix (see jayp'.ja.ru below). It must also be
distinguished from the allomorph /-ja/ of lp possessive
and from the verbal derivational suffix -ja- that may
verbalize noun roots. It may be this suffix that occurs
in the derived demonstratives ak"a and uk"a and in the
interrogatives kawk"a and qawg"a. It occurs on wali
in wal.ja ‘a lot', contrasting with wal.jama ‘pretty
good'. Two other examples, on temporals, are jayp'.ja.ru
‘in the afternoon' (San Andrés de Machaca) and ur.ja

‘by day' (Salinas).
5-3.12.4 - Kipa ‘every other'

In contemporary La Paz Aymara, this suffix occurs
only on numbers, as in may.kipa ‘every other one',
pay.kipa ‘every other two'. It may be identical with

the homophonous verbal derivational suffix meaning ‘action