nepatia Re: [Nahuat-l]

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

It also could have been "cheneh patiyoh", "way too expensive". And  
maybe you just heard the last syllable of "cheneh".
John

On Oct 26, 2006, at 9:39 PM, John Sullivan, Ph.D. wrote:

>> 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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