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In Salinas the following were given with the
final suffix /-ru/, an allomorph of -iri on verbs ending

in stem vowel /u/.

ch'axch'u.ru ‘in order to water, person who waters'

t"uqu.ru "in order to dance, dancer'

In all Aymara dialects a final verb root vowel /u/ over-
rides a following /i/ by regular morphophonemic rule,
but it does not usually affect any subsequent /i/ as

in this case; the word for 'dancer' in La Paz is
t"ugu.ri. The rule in Salinas may reflect an earlier

stage of vowel harmony in the language.

7-4.21.2 - fa

All verb roots may take -fia to form an infini-
tive (abstract noun of the action) which may or may not
imply obligation. Most verb stems may also take -fia.
Examples of verb roots and stems nominalized with -fia
were given in 7-4.2.

Some verb stems do not take -fia if the stem
does not take a human subject. The following examples

show some semantic constraints operating in La Paz:

apa.fia ‘to take’ (human subject)