ozcoa, ozcohua, izcoa, izcohua

[John Sullivan]

Piljoetzin,
	Ok, so that’s clear, although I’ve been trying to think up something clever to say about not regularizing headwords. 
And, just for the heck of it, I’ll repeat my handy way of telling whether we are dealing with -oa/-ohua or -ia/-iya.
1. To distinguish between -oa and -ohua, we need an attestation of the future form which will either be -oz or -ohuaz. The preterite won’t work because both in writing and speaking the -oh/-ouh can be confused, although sometimes we would have -oh/-ohuac
2. To distinguish between -ia/-iya we can use either the future, -iz/-iyaz or the preterite, -ih/-ix
John

On Dec 10, 2013, at 3:33, Campbell, R. Joe <campbel at indiana.edu> wrote:

> John,
> 
>  Unless I'm mistaken, the -ohua forms all come from the Florentine; Molina doesn't have -ohua.
> 
>  Of course, that doesn't have any weight.  What does weigh is the shape of the forms that our sources have.  On the issue of what the initial vowel of the stem is, Mol-1 S-N has "neozcoliztli", giving us the information that the 'o' is not part of the object prefix; the Florentine, Book 11, has 'quimozcooa' (with a 'quim-' prefix), "they warm them", corroborating the "o- initial" verb stem hypothesis.
> 
>  The 'oa' or 'ohua' question is resolved by a citation in M-2 N-S: the preterit of "ninozcoa' is 'oninozco[h]', not 'oninozcouh' (the final 'h' of 'oninozcoh') added here as a favor to fray Alonso).
> 
>  Oh, the issue of "oa" vs. "ohua" reminds me that I haven't regularized the "primary" or "display" spelling for these particular entries yet.  Of course, the database will maintain a double representation: display (regularized) vs. original.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting John Sullivan <idiez at me.com>:
> 
>> Sorry,
>> 	I should have asked, is it ozcoa, ozcohua, izcoa or izcohua?
>> John
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