‘like' and which today occurs most often as a suffix on
nouns, sometimes on verbs (but only when accompanied
by a preceding or following fAch/ or fs/) and sometimes
frozen in forms which are synchronically unanalyzable.
f‘ch/7 in these suffixes derives from several
different underlying forms. In suffixes beginning with
Fys/ it may be the verbal derivational verbalizer -cha-.
In /-ichja-/ it may be the alternative question suffix
-cha, frozen and no longer a morpheme in this context.
In /-,chjama-/, -ch/ may be the verbal derivational/
verbalizer -cha- metathesized to a position before
fjama7. In /- chja-/ and /- sja-/; /-ch/ is not identi-
fiable. The possibility exists that in some or all of
these cases fch/ is related to the present-day noun
suffix -cha diminutive which occurs in only a few
dialects, not including those which are sources of the
Class 3 suffixes so far obtained. In the sister language
Jagqaru there is a noun suffix -cha 'limitative' seman-
tically equivalent to the Aymara independent suffix -ki
‘only, just' (Hardman 1966:87).

Although forms beginning with fs? may be analyzed
synchronically, the other suffixes having fAch/ and /Ajama/
(and their reduced variants) cannot be. It seems best
at this time, therefore, to present them all as Class

3 verbal derivationals pending further investigation.