Spanish affixes in Purepecha/Tarascan

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Chamoreau (2012:81–82).

1 diminutive

  • -itu ‘diminutive’, e.g. watsi-itu-etʃa-ni (boy-diminutive-pl-object) ‘(to) the boys’, xantiakhu-itu ‘completely alone’ (from xantiakhu ‘alone’), sapilati-itu-e-p-ka (small-diminutive-predication-aorist.past-subject) ‘(you) were very young’