icpatl

[IDIEZ]

Joe,
	Off the top of my head, in Modern Huastecan Nahuatl we have:
1. to go: niyauh, tiyauh, yohui, etc.
2. ayohuitl/ayauhtli, “neblina“
3. yohualli/yahualli, “noche“
	And on another parallel subject, I have come to think that the roots for “noche/dark“ and “round“ are one (yohualli, yahualli).
John

On May 20, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Campbell, R. Joe wrote:

> John,
> 
> Are there other examples of /a/ becoming [o] before /w/?  The older
> stage of the language has variability of  a/e, but I haven't found any
> case of a/o.
> ...not doubting, just asking.
> 
> Joe
> 
> Quoting IDIEZ <idiez at me.com>:
> 
>> Piyali notequixpoyohuan,
>> 	Supposedly there are two icpatl morphemes. I:cpatl, with the long
>> "i" is "cord or thread" and the other is the root of the relational
>> word "-icpac". I haven't seen the root used in other words in
>> Classical sources, but in Modern Huastecan Nahuatl, we have,
>> "icpohuia, nic." "to carry s.t. on top of one's head". (Also seen as
>> "tlacpohuia"; it would be attractive to think that there is only one
>> morpheme, cord/thread, since woman actually carry the load on a
>> doughnut shaped support made by winding up cloth. However, the fact
>> that the "i" of "icpatl" elides in "tlacpohuia" means the root can't
>> be "i:cpatl", "cord".) This is obviously from "icpa(tl)" and the
>> "-huia" applicative verb-forming morpheme. The "a" of "icpa-" becomes
>> "o" before the "hu-" of "-huia". Anyway, this gives us "icpohuia",
>> "to use the top of one's head with respect to the object of the
>> verb." Has anyone seen this "icpatl" morpheme used in any words
>> besides "icpohuia", "icpac" and their derivatives?
>> John
>> 
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