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when it occurs after them, it means ‘the same, the very,
itself'. However, it never co-occurs with itself, and
when it occurs without a complement/relational, it may
have either meaning or may act as an intensifier of the
meaning of the root it occurs on.

This suffix must be distinguished from the verbal
inflection -pacha 3+3 Inferential and from the restricted
temporal root pacha ‘time, epoch' (5-2.6). The frozen
stem pachpa 'same' is evidence that -pacha suffix was
once a root. The suffix -pacha may occur on certain

temporal roots (but not on pacha).

mar.pacha ‘all year, the same year’ (La Paz)

ur.pacha ‘by daylight’ (La Paz)
An example of a temporal root plus pacha ‘time, epoch'
is g'alt'i pacha 'in the morning' (Salinas), in which

the vowel of the modifier is retained.

Other examples of -pacha suffix are

pug".pacha ‘full up' (Salinas)

laka.r.pach laka.r.pach ‘gasping for breath' (Corque)
mouth to a

In Juli, La Paz, and Calacoa -pacha occurs on

naya ~ na: 1p pronoun, meaning 'myself'; elsewhere it