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ane'micdonik 

 ania'mdonik 



ni'cicdo'nim 

 anicda'i'vnik 

 aniamdai'vnik 



I am a great smoker 

 I am not a smoker 

 1 want to smoke 

 I know how to run 

 I do not know how to run 



61. -(i)d, applicative. 



The use of the applicative is one of the most recurrent features 

 of Tepecano. While the construction is not required for verbs by- 

 nature denoting action toward or against another person, it is- 

 generally found when a verb, as for instance a normal intransitive, 

 predicates an action addressed toward another person. The suffix 

 appears as -d or -id alone or in combination with other suffixes in 

 present or future tenses. 4C 



a'niumnio'kii) 



ami'cupnio'k 

 avi'bin'o'noio 



pa'napuno'a 

 pimiaso'sbidida 



anti'aso'B 

 nampihotunha'nitda 



a'nituha'x 

 napuboit-okdiM 



anti'puto'k 



I am scolding you 



they also speak 

 he comes to see me 



where are you looking? 

 ye must go obstructing them 



I intercepted them 

 that they may maul me 



I am handling it 

 he is reaching down to us 



I placed it 



Other uses seem to be more idiomatic. 



miamin-a mkoiD 

 miamin-a'mokdam 



ani'nanmrik 

 apticima'cib 

 natimacdim 



avi'cmac 

 piho'natihurtrndim 



a'nimihu'rnia 



they do not pay me 



they do not want to pay me 



I am meeting him 

 how did you awake this morning? 

 that we may go arising (every morn> 



there it appears (the track) 

 where we pass the afternoon 



I am going down (to the river) 



But the suffix is seldom found in the preterit. Here the usual 

 process seems to be to distinguish the past applicative by the use 

 of the present stem instead of the preterit form, as, 



a'mitun.a - 'giD 

 na'pimpu.a-'G 

 natpuvan.a -, G 

 ati'tu.a 



they are speaking to me 

 (that) which you say 

 then he told me 

 he conversed 



(pres. applic.) 

 (present) 

 (past applic.) 

 (preterit) 



46 Lower Pima -{i)da (Smith, op. cit.); Northern Tepehuane -(i)de, -{i)di (Riaaldini, 

 op. cit.). 



