542

(Through a slip of the tongue, the storyteller said
‘leaving the children tied up', when actually it was

the ostrich that had been left tied.)
7-4.21.4 wi ~ -:wi ~ -awi ‘place or occasion of action'

No examples of this suffix occurred in free texts
in this research, showing it is not very productive today.
A check with Vasquez (La Paz/Tiahuanaco) of forms with
this suffix given by Bertonio (1603b) resulted in sub-
stitution of Twi by -ta nominalizer in most instances.

In contemporary La Paz/Tiahuanaco Aymara some forms
occur with -wi, others with -:wi. Only one instance
of -awi was found. The following are all from La Paz/

Tiahuanaco:

yura.wi ‘place of birth' yuri.fia ‘to be born'

yati.wi ‘news' yati.fia ‘to know'

yati.ga.wi ‘place where one learns' yati.ga.fia ‘to learn’
iki.:wi ‘bedroom' jiki.fia ‘to sleep, bed’

jay.cha.si.wi ‘past quarrel’ jay.cha.si.fia ‘to quarrel'
sata.wi ‘time to plant’ sata.fia ‘to plant’

tanta.cha.wi "meeting, gathering’ tanta.cha.fia 'to gather'

jiwa.wi ‘'death' jiwa.fia 'to die, death'