-ti verber

[Tomas Amaya]

Hi, tomahicnihuan!
I think I have a good example from current nahuat:
Nichanti Cuetzalan: I live in Cuetzalan; I HAVE my house in Cuetzalan.
But: 
If it were an old house telling its story, the house could say: 
Mazqui nicalzol yn axcan, in nitechanti oc: although I am an old house today, I am still a house for the people/ although I am already old and run down, I can still BE a home for the people. 

Namechoyoltlapalohua!

Tomas Amaya

> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:57:20 -0400
> From: mmccaffe at indiana.edu
> To: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org
> Subject: Re: [Nahuat-l] -ti verber
> 
> John:
> 
> Like Mr. Launey I am puzzled by your idea that -ti can mean 'have'. If 
> I say to myself "nicaltih," that sounds to me like "I became a 
> house"...maybe playing with the kids or creating something in my 
> imagination. It wouldn't mean "I have a house". I'm having trouble 
> finding examples of a verb in -ti with a noun stem that means 'have'. 
> tetl..teti...niteti...hmmm...
> 
> Can you provide some examples where we find -ti meaning 'have'? That 
> might help.
> 
> Much obliged,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> Quoting M Launey <mlauney at wanadoo.fr>:
> 
> >
> >
> > Dear John and listeros
> >
> > I?m puzzled by this translation -ti = « have ». I?m away for a week
> > from my books, and I will check as soon as I can, but I can?t
> > remember a single clear occurrence in the Classical Nahuatl corpus of
> > a ?ti verb meaning « have ».
> >
> > Message du 25/09/14 02:01
> >> De : "John Sullivan"
> >> A : "M Launey"
> >> Copie à : "Campbell R. Joe" , "list nahuatl discussion"
> >> Objet : Re: [Nahuat-l] -ti verber
> >>
> >>
> > calli + ti = calti, ?to have a house?,
> > John
> >  
> > __
> 
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