<div>The shortened forms yeh, neh and teh also existed in classical nahuatl according to Launey (and Carochi?) . It is also often the case in the modern dialects that there is a long and a short form and often it is concidental which one ends up in a wordlist.
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<div>I seem to remember an article by Karen Dakin treating among other things the pronouns of the souther uto-aztecan languages. Any way -<em>huatl</em> is not a root, the root would be -<em>wa</em> plus the absolutive suffix -
<em>tl</em>. -<em>wa</em>- is a very common affix with a variety of different meanings and functions. I think it will be very difficult to ascribe it any independent meaning in the pronouns.</div>
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<div><font size="2">The article by Karen Dakin is: DAKIN, Karen. In press. El nahuatl dentro del yutoazteca sureno: algunas isoglosas gramaticales. In: Estudios linguisticos mesoamericanos, edited by Carolyn Mackay and Veronica Vazquez, Seminario de Lenguas Indigenas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/01/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arnd Sölling</b> <<a href="mailto:arnibionic@yahoo.de">arnibionic@yahoo.de</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>I am working on cross-dialectal linguistics of Nahuatl and have come to a question i could not resolve...maybe somebody can help me out...comparing the independent pronouns in the various dialects i noticed that some dialects show shortened forms like ye or yeh while other retain the old classical form like yehuatl...does anyone know the meaning of the stem -huatl or where it comes from?
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<div>Thank you, </div><span class="sg">
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