Fwd: nepatia Re: [Nahuat-l]

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

> Maybe what she said was "nel patiyoh", "It's really expensive".
> John
>
> On Oct 26, 2006, at 5:36 PM, Matthew Montchalin wrote:
>
>> Is nepatia one of the reflexive forms of the verb patia, to cure
>> itself?
>>
>> The other day I was going through the grocery store, and I was on
>> the right hand side of the aisle, checking out the shampoos and hair
>> conditioners.  On my left, however, coming up my way, there was a
>> woman with a baby in her cart, and another kid walking along beside
>> her, and as they were going past me, they were going past the place
>> where the aspirin, cold medicines and cough drops were.  The kid ran
>> up to the cold medicines and grabbed a box of Ludens Lemon Cough
>> Drops but the mom took it out of her hand and said, "Nepatia!" and
>> so, in a word, put it back on the shelf.
>>
>> When I went home, I looked the word up in Karttunen's Dictionary,
>> and *think* she had told her kid that, in a single utterance, the
>> purchase was unnecessary because the problem would take care of
>> itself:  "it cures itself" - 3rd person singular indicative (active)
>> present, with the ne- prefix denoting the reflexive voice, more or
>> less. (I had spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out if it
>> were some kind of 1st person singular prefix, but eventually decided
>> against it.)
>>
>> Did I translate it right?
>>
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