a question about "yatoc", not about Aztec

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

Listeros,
	Here at the institute we have two interesting words.
1. niyatoc, "I am seated"
2. nicuatochyatoc, "I'm in a squatting position".
	It is not yahtoc, and therefore the root is not yauh, "to go" (but  
see below). And I don't know if cuatochyatoc is
	cuatoch(in) + yatoc             or
	cuatochya + [t(i) + o + c]
The second option perhaps suggest that the imperfect tense ya morpheme  
and perhaps the inceptive -ya verbalizer and perhaps the particle ya,  
"already" have a verbal origin. Yes, certain forms of "to go" have a  
long vowel (the above yatoc does not), but that could be because of  
the postulated older form of the class 4, yata, which upon losing the - 
ta lengthened the preceding a.
	So.......... any ideas?
John

John Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor of Nahua language and culture
Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Zacatecas Institute of Teaching and Research in Ethnology
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