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107, La Paz nink"ara is a noun/verb root. An
example of its occurrence as a verb is Nink"ara.tayna.w.
‘It was a while ago.' nink"ara also occurs with the
verbal derivational suffixes -t'a- momentaneous and
-~Jja- divider, but without subsequent verbal inflection,
i. @., as nouns: Nink"ar.t'a.w ~ Nink"ar.ja.w. ‘It was
a while ago. (The latter may instead be a case of
/-ja/ allomorph of -jama 'like' on the root acting as a
noun.) Other examples of verb roots plus verbal derivationals
forming stems that serve as nouns are given in 6-2.

"I temporals were not obtained for Socca until
very late in the researcn; they are not included in
Figures 5-1 and 5-2. Those obtained are the following:

 

alwa ‘morning’

aruma "night'

arumanti ‘tomorrow'

q'aita ‘morning'

q"ar-u:ru ‘tomorrow’

suji.suji ‘gray time before dawn'

suj.s.t"api ‘dusk'

l2the Spanish demonstrative este ‘'this', which
serves a similar filler function, has been borrowed into
Aymara as isti and occurs in variation with inchi, as in
the following:

 

 

(isti.x) naya.xa (inchi.w) sara.ki.tayna.x ...
Ip — go 343
RIK

 

'(uh) I (uh) he just left . . .' (Juli)

"34. we have seen, the personal possessive suf-
fixes also have differing morphophonemics across dia-
lects.

Vacertain verbs take -ta ~ -t"a rather than -ru
complements, e. g. mayi.fia 'to borrow’.