Spanish affixes in Caquinte

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from O’Hagan (2022). It is possible that these affixes entered the language via Quechua.

2 nominalizers

  • -mero ‘instrument nominalizer’, e.g. pishi-mero-ntsi (sweep- nominalizer-alienable) ‘broom’, tinka-mero-ntsi (paddle nominalizer-alienable) ‘churning paddle’
  • -mento ‘abstract nominaliziation’, e.g. shogirik-mento-ntsi

(crank-nominalizer-alienable) ‘crank’, this example is originally from Salazar Torres et al. (2019:76).