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Winus tiyus. (La Paz/Compi)
Winas tartis. (La Paz/Compi)

Waynus tiyas. (Sitajara)

Waynas tartis. (Sitajara)

An unusual greeting and reply apparently borrowed from
16th century Spanish persist in Calacoa. The original
Spanish was identified for me by a native speaker of Span-
ish from Moquegua, who said the full reply would be

Sin pecado concebida (‘conceived without sin').

Maraptis. < Spanish Ave Maria Purifsima
Simpikaw. < Spanish sin pecado ‘without sin'

In several places Aymara greetings said to be archaic
and no longer in use were elicited. In one case a verb
with 2>+3 F appears to be reduced from 3+2 and to repre-
sent a kind of frozen contraction or ellipsis, as the

meaning is what it would be if the inflection were 3+2 F.

Dios aski.y chura.:ta. ‘God's blessing you will give.'
od give 2+3 (Juli)
F

 

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Aski.y chura.:ta. ‘Blessing you will give.' (Torata,
Moquegua )