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stops after nasals (Corque, Salinas, and northern
the suffix is phonetically [nda]. The meaning on
of motion is usually 'into', while on other verbs

usually an inceptive.

iki.nta.fia 'to go to bed' (everywhere)  iki.fia

manta.fia ‘to enter' (everywhere) *ma- 'go'

PotosT),
verbs

it is

‘to sleep'

manta.nta.fia ‘to enter' (Socca) (manta- as frozen stem)

puri.nta.fia ‘to arrive' (Tarata, Jopoqueri)
puri.fia 'to arrive'

sara.nta. fia ‘to enter' (La Paz; also Bertonio 1603b:287)

sara.fia 'to go'

[wina .nda. fia] ‘to put in' (Corque, Salinas)

*wina.fia ‘to put' (unattested)

yati.nta.fia ‘to learn by oneself' (Calacoa) yati.fia 'to know'

An interesting use of -nta- with the meaning ‘not on pur-

pose, by bad luck' is the following:

uta nak"a.nta.ya.s.iri ‘a person whose house burned down
— through bad Juck' (La Paz/

Tiahuanaco)

nak"a.fia ‘to burn'