maybe another class 4

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Thu Feb 26 21:13:22 UTC 2004


An eastern huastecan speaker of nahuatl will say: "Tlahuel tiohuih", 
"You are a very difficult person," and "Tlahuel tiohuihqueh", "You (pl) 
are very difficult people." So, "ohuih" is the preterite agentive of 
what probably was either a class 3 (ohuia) or a class 4(ohui) verb.
        A similar case points to the possible verbal origin of "oc", "still". 
While older central Mexican nahuatl gives, "occe", "another", and 
"occequin", "others", modern huastecan nahuatl gives, "ceyoc", 
"another", and "ceyoqueh", "others".
John

John Sullivan, Ph.D.
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