temo, temoa

[Michael McCafferty]

Of course, nitemohua, as far as I know, would be, at least in the 
classical language, ungrammatical. But, as you know, John, -oa is often 
written for -ohua.

Interesting. Always a surprise.

We just discovered over the last twenty-four hours that a 
pan-Algonquian verb root for 'trade, buy' got lost in the Algonquian 
language Miami-Illinois and then was brought back by *French* traders 
who had learned the verb root from other Algonquian-speaking groups, 
and then Miami-Illinoized to look just like it would have looked before 
it was lost.

Michael

Quoting Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>:

> Could nitemoa be the non-active form of temo, i.e., nitemohua?
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> Quoting John Sullivan <idiez at me.com>:
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>> Piyali notequixpoyohuan,
>> 	I am editing a text in Modern Tlaxcalan Nahuatl for publication, and
>> there is something I can't explain. The intransitive verb, "to
>> descend", which according to my logic should be nitemoc (pret),
>> nitemo (pres.) and nitemoz (fut), actually works like this:
>> nitemoc (pret)
>> nitemoa (pres.)
>> nitemoz (fut.)
>> 	What in going on with this mictlantlahtolli? And I've
>> double-checked: that final "c" in the singular preterite really is a
>> "c".
>> 	I know that some verbs fudge around between verb classes depending
>> on the tense (like "to go", for example), but I don't know if there
>> is a better explanation here.
>> John
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