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and our perfect participle. From the materials already published it is almos!
impossible to give an accurate idea of !he formation of the future partic.iple.
esuru,
ripe, mature
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erada,
voluminous
Tacana
esuru-ani,
ripening
erada-(a)ni,
heap
rada-itsa,
heap-lay
rada-neti,
heap-stay
erada-itsa-(Iza)nia,
making heaps
T:he present participle thus is formed by suffixing to nouns and verbs or
(e)ani,
to be, or the present participle
(eha)nia,
from
aha,
to make
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Tacan a
ctlina,
to go out
idi,
to drink
idi-me,
to cause to drink
idi-me-t-ani,
causing to drink
Cavineña
ecuina-na,
to give birth, to arrive
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eba,
!o look
eba-nia,
looking
ttsarna,
!o look
etsama-t-ani,
Iooking
Example:
tue¡a ema etsama-t-ani,
he is
looking at me
elaru,
rowing
In the Cavineña !he present participle and !he gerundium are formed by
suffixing
-tsu
to the infinitive.
Thus:
ani,
to
be
mere,
to work
inedaba,
!o !ove
ani-ba-tsu,
being looking
mere-lsu,
working
inedaba-lsu,
loving
The past participle is formed by adding the suffix
-/su
to the imperfect
and sometimes to the perfect.
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Cavin e ña
mere-xua-lsu,
having worked
ineda-bana-lsu,
having loved.
The suffix
-xa
expresses desire, wish (optative?).
idi,
to drink
puti
Ho,
to go
pu,
to npke
dia,
to eat
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Cf. esiri,
age.
T aca na
ema idi-xa,
1 wish to drink
ema ¡mti-xa,
1 wish to go
pu-xa,
being disposed to do
dia-dia-xa
141 ,
hunger (eat-eat-wish)
T
h1e n:
dta-xa,
1
am hungry
ida-xa,
¡-am thirsty
tabi-xa-wana,
we are sleepy
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The editor of ARMENTIA's rnaterials, p. 21, rnisunderstood, indeed.
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"Cavineña", p. 61,
quinana;
cf-
p. 42. The suffix
-na
is etymologically related to
nana(da},
infans;
cf. cua-na,
we, plural suffix; Cav.
xura-cuana,
filiate (affiliate?).
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Compounds are
pu-ti,
!o go;
pu-e,
to come; as well as
pu-xi,
the particle of the
dative
(
ema-puxi,
lor me).
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"Tacana'',
p.
62,
the editor of ARMENnA's materials is mistaken when he says
that
-xa
is
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sufijo negativo" !