three doubts

[John F. Schwaller]

At 10:01 AM 4/20/2004, you wrote:
>Is there a rule saying that whenever there are two vowels at the end of a
>stem (i.e. TOCAITL, MAITL, TEMACHTIANI) one is to delete the last vowel
>(TOCA, MA, TEMACHTI) ?


Unfortunately, -temachtiani- comes ultimately from the verb stem -mati- to
know.  It is an example of the customary form of the verb. After -mati- one
then constructs the causative form -machtia- to cause some one to know, or
to teach.  Then one constructs the customary by adding the indefinite
personal object -te- meaning someone, and the -ni- suffix of the customary,
in order to get temachtiani, one who customarily causes someone to know
something, that is a teacher.




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