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Waka. nufu Sa.ni.p.xa.sma. lla! ‘You should say cow's udder!’

cow udder 2>3
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6-2.23.2 ~yWas ~ -Waya- ~ -wai- ~ -wi- ~ -wiya- distancer

This suffix increases spatial, temporal, or emo-
tional distance between the persons of the inflection, or
between person(s) and place(s). There may be a change of
location, or several locations, for the person(s). The
suffix may imply action before leaving for somewhere else
or while on the way somewhere else. The suffix may serve
as a softener or emphatic with such meanings as ‘quickly',
"at once', or ‘by the way'.

The most common shape of this suffix is /-wa-/,
which reduces to /w/ before consonant-requiring suf-
fixes. This variant occurs in Juli, Huancané, Socca,
Calacoa, Sitajara, and Calacala. The allomorph /-waya-/
occurs in La Paz, reducing to /way/ before consonant-
requiring suffixes. It may reduce to /wa/ before vowel-
requiring suffixes. Parts of La Paz also have an alter-
nate form /-wa:-/ (also attested in Bertonio 1603b),
which reduces to /wa/ before consonant-requiring suf-
fixes.

In Sitajara /-waya-/ (reduced to /way/) occurs
before -i 3+3 Simple tense; /-wa-/ (reduced to /w/)
occurs before other /i/-initial suffixes; and /-wa:-/
occurs elsewhere, reduced to /wa/ before consonant-

requiring suffixes.