warhi

Purepecha

Noun

warhi

1. Alternative form of uárhi (“woman”)
   • 2016, Claudine Chamoreau, “Non-finite chain-medial clauses on the continuum of finiteness in Purepecha”, in Claudine Chamoreau, Zarina Estrada-Fernández, editors, Finiteness and Nominalization, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 93:

     (16) a. ja-rha-x-p-ti=na ma warhi xepiti,
     be.there-FT-AOR-PAST-ASS3s=EV ART.INDF woman lazy
     'There was a lazy woman,
     b. ima warhi xepi-ni,
     DEM woman be.lazy-NF
     this woman was lazy,

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References

• Jorge A. Suarez, The Mesoamerican Indian Languages (1983) (spells it 'waɽi)