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Cf.:
R uDOLPH ScHULLER
t·,
pea-ve,
only one;
betana-ve
1
beta-ve
f
those-two-only
aque-ve,
make it a!one (thou)
madada-ve,
only sick
lua-ve·za
1
·
lue-;a-~e
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only that one
ea-ve-!fa,
this one alone
eme-beta-ve,
hand-two-only (ten)
lreca-ve
(Maropa), hoy (from
treca.
man)
The suffix
-ve
occurs
~lso
in diminutives, as for instance,
epuna,
w.oman;
epuna-ve,
girl;
eanana,
baby;
enana-ve,
tender;
pii.Si,
cheap;
pilse-ve,
less.
The plural is formed by adding the su_ffix
-caana
to the stem so.
Cuana
must primitively have had the sense of :'people" (we, the lndians, the Tacana,
only), and as such have been used to form the plural of animated beings and
of those thought to be.
It
is still recognizable as a compound, which no doubt
etymologically is related to
wa-ra,
mother,
T.,
caa-cu,
Cav.,
e-cua-i,
master,
Lord, T.,
eanana,
baby,
cai-rza,
to givé birth, &c.
The same meanings
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have the suffixes
-xana, lhána, -ca-na, -queha,
in
the tribal names, as: Paravi-lhána, La-yaná, Uapi-sána, Are-cuna, Bare–
quéna, &c.
The dental
n
has become palatalized in Araona. SANJINes, however, in
the Tacana
give~
eana
and
eatúa,
to be, beif1g, indiscriminately.
xume-quie,
the
3'ct
11erson sing. as given by CARDúS, is the possessive, his,
that-one-of (his-being-of-him) .
The genitive of the
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pers. sing. of the absolute pronoun is formed 'by
prefixing the element
qui-.
·
m
y
thy
Thus:
Taca n a
A r a o n a
of me
qui-ema
qui-ema
(of-my-being)
. In Cavineña, however, the particle
-quia, -cae
are suffixed.
of me
e-cue
of thee
me-cue
The genitive and the possessive are identical.
Cav ine ña
e-qui-quia
mi-qui-quia
his, her
our
Tacana
qui-ema
mi-que-¡a
tu-se-¡a
)
e-t:uana-sa
e-cuane-za,
S.
\mi-cuan-a-sa
lmi-cuana-za,
S.
itSu-cuana-sa
tu-nese-za,
S.
Araona
qui-ema etetse
mi-que emetse
vaza emetse
e-cuaza-xa
ta-xa-quie
emetse-e-cuana-qui-quia
your
mi-cuana-xa
emelse-mi-cuana-qui-quia
their
xuma-cuana-xa
emetse xuma-cuana-xi-kie (quie)
'"
Cf.
ecuan-e-sa.
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ecua-za,
we, Araona, is one oi those strange forms which very irequently occur,
without explanation or reierence wllatsoever, in LAFONE QuEvEno's paper on the Tacana.
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Cf. cuna,
"people", and the plural suffix in the KétSua.