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from either alone. When both occur, -ni- always precedes

-wa- or variants.
6-2.23.1 ~yni- approacher

This suffix has only one allomorph in all dialects.
It reduces spatial, temporal, or emotional distance be-
tween the persons of the inflection (who may be the
speaker, hearer, both, or neither) or between person(s)

and place (s). Examples:

jir.ta.ni.fia ‘to go to move something’ (Sitajara)
— 'to go to move something with a stick' (La Paz/
Compi )

jiru.fia, jir.ta.fia ‘to stir’

iki.ni.fia ‘to go somewhere to sleep' (La Paz; also Bertonio
—_ 1603b:285)

iki.nma ‘to sleep’

mang'a.ni.fia ‘to approach to eat' (La Paz)
— ‘to go to eat, to have just eaten’ (Bertonio
1603b: 285)

mang'a.fia ‘to eat’

qillga.n.ch. itasma ‘you could write to me' (La Paz)
qillga.fia ‘to write’

In Calacoa -ni- often occurs with sa.fia ‘to say',

with the Imperative, Future, and Desiderative tenses.