AfBo 2.0: A world-wide survey of affix borrowing

Aymara affixes in Uru

Summary

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Information and examples are from Hannß (2008) and Katja Hannß (personal communication, 2011).

3 case markers (out of a paradigm of 9 case markers in Uru)

• -kama ‘terminative case’, e.g. uskatan-kama (moment-terminative) ‘in a moment, in an instant’ (Hannß 2008:173; citing Métraux 1935:101)
• -taki ‘benefactive case’, e.g. suni-taki ‘for the people’ (Hannß 2008:176; citing Muysken 2005:73)
• -na ‘locative case’, e.g. kʷas-na ‘into the water’ (Hannß 2008:167; citing Vellard 1967:4)

3 suffixes that are not interrelated

• -pača ‘intensifier’, e.g. tonx pača ‘even today’ (Hannß 2008:253; citing Métraux 1935:91, 101)
• -naka ‘plural’, e.g. suni-naka ‘the Uru people’ (Hannß 2008:138; citing Vellard 1967:3), tusa-naka ‘balsa rafts’ (Hannß 2008:168; citing Métraux 1935:99)
• -pini ‘affirmative clausal clitic’, e.g. kustak-pini-ki (brother-affirmative-topic) ‘the truly older brother’ (Hannß 2008:274; citing Vellard 1967:24), yuk-pini ‘very many’ (Hannß 2008:274; citing Vellard 1967:16)