i:x-

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting David Wright <dcwright at prodigy.net.mx>:

> Thanks for that Magnus, I appreciate you taking the time to explain. Other
> relevant examples in early colonial central Mexican Nahuatl are the
> compounds with xo- ("foot"); in this case there aren't cases of this
> morpheme standing alone, with an absolutive suffix (xotl), as far as I can
> see.
>
>

Quema. Tlaxtlahui, Magnus.

Not that everyone may agree. But it's an interesting discussion and I 
appreciate hearing what you have to say. I wonder if most linguists 
would consider something like /i:x-/ affixal in nature as affixes are 
defined.

In my case, my memory tends to learn "stems," in this case,  /i:x-/. 
So, /i:xtli/ then feels like a derivation. :-)

So, to call /i:x-/ a "prefix" in these many composite terms we see in 
Nahuatl is not that big a leap.

Michael

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