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jayta.muku.fia 'to abandon’ jayta.fia ‘to leave' (Jesfis de
Machaca)

6-2.17.5 ~ ptata- scatterer

This suffix may verbalize. In La Paz, if a stem
with -tata- cannot take a human subject, but only a non-
human one, it cannot be nominalized with -na. In this
respect stems with -tata- resemble stems with -pta- ver-
balizer. Some examples given by Bertonio (1603b) with

either human or nonhuman subjects may take only nonhuman

subjects in La Paz today, as follows:

Chullu.tat.i.w. 'The ice melted! chullu ‘ice’ (La Paz)
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Jang'u.tata.s.k.i.w. 'A soiled thing is becoming clean. (La Paz)

jang'u = ‘white'

 

k'umar. tata. fia 'to be cured' (La Paz) k'umara ‘healthy’
Q'ana.tata.s.k.i.w. ‘It's clearing up (after rain)! (La Paz)
3+3
S "ana ‘clear’

Uma.tat.i.w. 'It melted. (La Paz) uma ‘water'
3+3  'He sweated/It began to melt! (Bertonio 1603b:305)
S

The following are examples of -tata- as derivational:

alli.tata.fia ‘to fall outward’ (e. g. walls of a building)
(La Paz) ‘to spread out grain, potatoes, etc.'
(La Paz; also Bertonio 1603b:304)

alli.na ‘to dig’ (La Paz)