<div>Dear John Sullivan</div>
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<div>In Hueyapan nahuatl those same constructions exist except with the vowel /e/ instead of /a/. lt seems to come from ye, the suppletive form of cah. In this niyetok in this way is used as an equivalent of spanish "estoy". </div>
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<div>Magnus Pharao Hansen</div>
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:41:48 -0600<br>Subject: [Nahuat-l] a question about "yatoc", not about Aztec<br> </div>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Listeros,
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span>Here at the institute we have two interesting words.<br> </div>
<div>1. <i>niyatoc</i>, "I am seated"</div>
<div>2. <i>nicuatochyatoc</i>, "I'm in a squatting position".</div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span>It is not <i>yahtoc</i>, and therefore the root is not <i>yauh</i>, "to go" (but see below). And I don't know if <i>cuatochyatoc</i> is </div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span><i>cuatoch(in)</i> + <i>yatoc</i> or </div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span><i>cuatochya</i> + [<i>t</i><i>(i) + o + c</i>]<br> </div>
<div>The second option perhaps suggest that the imperfect tense <i>ya</i> morpheme and perhaps the inceptive -<i>ya</i> verbalizer and perhaps the particle <i>ya</i>, "already" have a verbal origin. Yes, certain forms of "to go" have a long vowel (the above <i>yatoc</i> does not), but that could be because of the postulated older form of the class 4, <i>yata, </i>which upon losing the -<i>ta</i> lengthened the preceding <i>a</i>.</div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span>So.......... any ideas?<br> </div>
<div>John</div><br>
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