a question about "yatoc", not about Aztec

[Michael McCafferty]

Muy curioso, John.

It looks, of course, like you have *ni-cuatoch-yatoc.

It's important, perhaps, to recall that the vowel of the verb /ya:/ 
does shorten in compounds. So, your -ya- could be 'go', and that you 
have, naturally, a preterit-as-present verb here. In this connection, 
it could be that there is some analogical process going on with the 
verb 'lie down', onoc.

Does this verb come in other tenses, say, a pluperfect-as-past? That 
is, do you see *(o)nicuatochyatoca? 'I was squatting'?

-cuatoch- in humorous.


Michael

Quoting "John Sullivan, Ph.D." <idiez at me.com>:

> 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.
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