<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Piyali Ben,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>You know that when mo- and itta come together, the o wins out over the i because although both are short, the o is stronger than the i. So we get motta, which you will see all the time in texts. Now, when it comes time to reduplicate, you reduplicate the new word, motta, which is now understood to be m-otta, and you get m-ohotta. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This kind of re-analyzed reduplication happens in the Huasteca too. So:</div><div>1. ahci, nic. to touch s.o. or s.t.</div><div>2. aahci, nic. to touch s.t. after all</div><div>3. Carlos quiaahci. Carlos touches it after all</div><div>4. Nicacahci. I touch it after all.</div><div>John</div><div><br><div><div>On May 12, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Leeming, Ben wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Piyali listeros,<br>
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Can anyone explain to me the process by which <i>mo+(i)ttah</i> (they look at each other, see themselves) becomes
<i>mohottah</i>?<br>
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On p. 90 of Andrews’ Workbook (1975 ed.), Ex. 38A, no. 3 he writes: <i>Nepanotl mohottah</i>, and then on p. 195 gives the translation “They are staring at one another mutually; i.e., They are staring at
<i>one another</i>.” On p. 445 of the text, in the <i>Vocabulary</i> under (iTTA) he has “MO-(iTTA) = to look at oneself, to see oneself.” This is
<i>close to</i> but not identical with <i>mohottah. <br>
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I have this sinking feeling that it’s something really obvious, but for whatever reason I can’t account for that first
<i>h</i>!!<br>
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Thank you!<br>
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Ben<br>
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<b>Ben Leeming<br>
</b>Chair, History Department<br>
The Rivers School<br>
Weston, MA 02493<br>
(781) 235-9300<br>
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