ihcequi doing it's applicative thing

[David Wright]

Greetings, all.

I was looking at a similar case with my students the day before yesterday,
chica:hua (long vowel courtesy of Frances Karttunen's dictionary), and was
wondering why the intransitive and transitive forms have different preterite
forms (intransitive with the preterite suffix -c, transitive with loss of
final vowel). In effect, the intransitive variant is a class 1 verb, while
the transitive variant is class 2. The following entries are from Molina's
*Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana*. As you can see, chica:hua
follows exactly the same pattern as e:hua and chipa:hua.

"Chicaua. ni. arreziar o tomar fuerças, o hazerse viejo el hombre o la
bestia. pret[érito]. onichicauac.

"Chicaua. nitla. fortalecer o guarnecer algo, y esforçar y animar.
pre[térito]. onitlachicauh.

"Chicaua. nite. esforçar a otro. pr[etérito] onitechicauh."

Best regards,

David

-----Mensaje original-----
De: nahuatl-bounces at lists.famsi.org [mailto:nahuatl-bounces at lists.famsi.org]
En nombre de John Sullivan
Enviado el: martes, 01 de noviembre de 2011 10:59
Para: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org
Asunto: Re: [Nahuat-l] ihcequi doing it’s applicative thing

Mitsuya,

     On the issue of Nahuatl verbs that are both transitive and
intransitive, we have others in the same category -- e.g., e:hua, chipa:hua,
mela:hua:

    e:hua      she arises
   e:huac     she arose
   que:uh    she raised it

   chipa:hua   it becomes pure
  chipa:huac  it became pure
 quichi:pauh  he purified it

Joe
  (the other half of the soon-to-be-dissolved Nahuatl morphology academy
here at Notre Dame) 

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