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Mak"i.k mak"i.k

 

sara.wW.ja.tan.
go 43

Mak"i.x mak"i.x F

 

 

‘Quickly, quickly we will go.' (words of a song)

ma:ski ‘or other' (La Paz/Tiahuanaco)

Ma:sk kun.ja:ma.s sar.chi.:.xa.y
——~— _ however go NI 123

F

‘Somehow or other, I'11 go.'

musp"a 'much, very' (Salinas, Calacala)

Musp"a jaya.wa. ‘It's very far.'

A special class of particles consists of terms
for affirmation and negation. The negative jani and its
occurrences in negative phrases are discussed in 7-4.5.
The affirmative jisa ‘yes' occurs in all dialects also;
sometimes either jani or jisa may lose its first syllable.

In some dialects jisa usually occurs with the final suf-

fix -lla ~ -ya. Examples:

jisa (La Paz, Juli, Huancané, Jopoqueri, Morocomarca)
jisa.ya (Morocomarca, Calacala)

sa.lla (Salinas)

 

sa.ya (La Paz, Calacala)