temo, temoa

Michael McCafferty mmccaffe at indiana.edu
Fri Jan 18 23:50:19 UTC 2013


Could nitemoa be the non-active form of temo, i.e., nitemohua?




Quoting John Sullivan <idiez at me.com>:

> 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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