Q on Molina entry

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Hi Joost and everyone,
        The root of this word is probably "aqui", "to enter", with a glottal 
stop reduplication, "ahaqui". This then goes to the combining form, 
which resembles the preterite, "ahac". Then the auxiliary verb "yauh" 
is added with the "-t(i)-" ligature, shortening from "-tiyauh" > 
"-ti(ya)uh" > "-tiuh". "ahactiuh", "he, she or it goes entering 
(trotting)". The preterite form would be "ahactiyah", with the full 
preterite form of the verb "to go", "-yah". The the antecessive "o-" is 
added. It looks like a directional "-on-" is also added, but its short 
vowel is absorbed into the long vowel of the antecessive. Thus, 
"onahactiyah", "---went off trotting". What's funny about this verb 
(unless I'm completely off on the preceding analysis) is that the 
entire form, including the auxiliary verb is transformed into the 
"-liztli" active action noun, "ahactiyaliztli", "the act of going 
entering (trotting)".
        By the way, does anybody have anything to say about the new edition of 
Andrews's grammar? I thing I like the first edition better.
John

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On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 05:05  PM, Joost Kremers wrote:

> On page 1 of the Nahuatl/Spanish side of his dictionary (at least the
> Biblioteca Porrúa edition), Molina gives the following entries:
>
> aactializtli. trote. del que camina.
> aactiuh.n. yr trotando. Prete. onaactia.
>
> I'm not sure what to make of this: the present stem of the verb aactiuh
> ends in a consonant. My first thought was that this is a
> preterite-as-present verb, with an original stem of something like
> *aactihu(i/a). But then how is the form onaactia composed? I assume 
> it's to
> be read as aactiya, but that doesn't explain where the -hu- dissapeared
> to. And what about the verbal noun aactializtli? Doesn't that suggest 
> that
> the stem is in fact aactia?
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone would shed some light on this for
> me... (Karttunen doesn't list these words, by the way.)
>
> TIA
>
> Joost
>
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
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