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A variant /-xa-/ occurred in Salinas.
jaqu.x.ta.fia ‘to whip' jaqu.fia ‘to fall'

Elsewhere the allomorph is /-qa-/.

ala.ga.fa ‘to buy' ala.fia ‘to buy’ (Calacala, Morocomarca)

asa.ga.fia ‘to remove plate or hat, down from above' (La Paz)

asa.fa ‘to carry a plate-like object' (La Paz)

ima.ga.fia ‘to save food for someone’
ima.fa 'to keep' (La Paz)
"to hide something' (Bertonio 1603b:272)

6-2.15.4 -_xata- ~ ~ xita- ‘on top of, up to'

This suffix does not verbalize. /-xita-/ occurred

in Salinas. Examples:

ik.xata.fia ‘to sleep on top of something’ (La Paz, also
— Bertonio 1603b:283)

ig.xita.fia ‘to carry a saddle-bag' (Salinas)
iga.na ‘to carry a cloth'

pur.xata.fia ‘to arrive (rain, hail, etc.)' (La Paz)

puri.fia ‘to arrive, to come'