nahuatl nouns with specific object prefixe
alexis wimmer
malinal at evhr.net
Tue Jul 11 19:19:12 UTC 2000
Remi Simeon in his Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl listed some deverbal
nouns whose verbal stem have kept a specific object prefixe qui-, for
instance nouns such as QUIXNENEUILILIZTLI, for qu-i:xnehnehui-liztli,
likeness or QUITEMMATILIZTLI for qui-te:mmati-liztli, negligence.
Theese nouns dont appear in the Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y
castellana from Molina and this formation seems to be irregular. What is
happened ? Can such forms appear in texts ? In Cod.Flor. is QUITE:MMATITL,
a neglectful one to find, a form with absolutive suffixe and direct-object
prefixe. Are some rules for these irregularities ?
Any help would be very useful.
Thankfully.
Alexis.
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