anu ch'ap"i
jamp'atu
tunta

710

Paredes Candia

‘dog excrement’

‘vagina’

‘potato starch'
(almidén de papa)

Vasquez (La Paz/Tiahuanaco)

‘dog thorn', medicinal
plant (Spanish amor seco)

"toad'

‘potatoes which have been
soaked in water, frozen,
fermented, and sun dried’;
an Andean staple food

In Missionary Aymara certain lexical items have

meanings different from those they have in other dialects,

usually resulting from generalized applications of terms

that have more specialized, or negative, meanings in other

contexts.

Some of these have already been mentioned in

earlier sections; more examples are given below.

Nouns:

aski
machaka
muntu jaqi

Missionary Aymara

"benefit, good, bene-
ficial’

“new', as in Machak
Testamentu ‘New
Testament '

 

"non members of one's
own sect'

muntu ‘world’ <

Spanish mundo
jaqgi ‘person, people'

 

Non-Missionary Aymara

same meaning, but used
only in certain set ex-
pressions (La Paz/Compi)

"new, unused' (e. g.
clothes) (La Paz/Compi)
Jich"a Testamentu

"New Testament’ (La Paz/

Compi )

 

taken as insult meaning
‘people of the Devil’
(La Paz/Tiahuanaco)