another class four verb

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A while ago someone asked about additions to the list of class four 
verbs. Well, here is another one.
In the Huasteca, "to spit (both intransitive and transitive)" is 
"chahcha". In Molina, "chihcha" is a
class 1 verb, "chihchac".  In the Huasteca, it is class 4: 
"nichahchahqui", "I spat", "tichahchahqueh",
"We spat", "nichahchahtoc", "I have spit". There is a less common 
alternate preterite form which is
only used in the singular, "chahchac". This is class one, but none of 
the plural forms, or forms
derived from the preterite stem (ti- compounds) are built on it.
John

John Sullivan, Ph.D.
Profesor de lengua y cultura nahua
Unidad Académica de Idiomas
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