Nahuatl Digest, Vol 117, Issue 11

[magnus hansen]

Dear John Sullivan

In Hueyapan nahuatl those same constructions exist except with the vowel /e/
instead of /a/. lt seems to come from ye, the suppletive form of cah. In
this niyetok in this way is used as an equivalent of spanish "estoy".

Magnus Pharao Hansen

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From: "John Sullivan, Ph.D." <idiez at me.com>
To: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:41:48 -0600
Subject: [Nahuat-l] a question about "yatoc", not about Aztec


> 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
>
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