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suffixes -mpi ~ -nti, -ru, etc., as in the following

example from La Paz/Compi:

Ch'ugi.yapu.r.kama.ki.w. ‘It's just as far as Chuquiayago. '

This suffix occurs with temporal orientation on
time words and nominalized verbs, most often as a form

of leave-taking with the prospect of another meeting.

arumant. kama ‘until tomorrow' (La Paz, Huancané)

 

may.ur. kam ‘until tomorrow! (Sitajara)
q'ar.u:r.kama ‘until tomorrow' (La Paz, Juli)
jiki.si.fi.kama ‘until (we) meet again’ (La Paz)

*Sich"a. kama. sa ‘until now' (Tschopik 1948:113)

In Salinas the variant /-ka:ma/ was heard, but this may
have been paralinguistic: ratu.ka:ma ‘so long'.

~kama is subject to the three-vowel rule.
5-3.32.2 ~ pacha ‘all, same'

This suffix was originally considered two sep-
arate homophonous suffixes because it has different mean-
ings in two positions of occurrence. When it occurs

before the complement/relationals it means "all's;