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ch' iyara.pta.ya.fia ‘to cause to turn black, to

blacken'
muxsa.pta. ya. fia ‘to sweeten’
Nina.x ch"ullunk"ay una pta. uma. pia Ya. tayna.
fire ice 3+3

RIK

'The fire melted the ice.’ (La Paz/Tiahuanaco)

The natural phenomena nouns lupi ‘sunlight' or inti ‘sun’

 

may be substituted for nina in the foregoing sentence.

The verb jiwa.fia 'to die' may take an animal or human
subject without the addition of any Class 1 suffixes to the
root, but not a plant subject; and it has no complements.

The following examples from La Paz/Compi have the Class 2

suffixes -si- and -ka- with the Non-Involver -chi and the

final suffixes -chi- plus -m:

Iwisa.x jiwa.s.k.chi.chi.m. ‘Maybe the sheep died.’
sheep die NI

Jupa.x jiwa.s.k.chi.chi.m. ‘Maybe he/she died.'
3p

*Ch'ugi.x jiwa.s.k.chi.chi.m. 'Maybe the potatoes died.'
potato

Another noun accepted as subject in the above pattern is