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:

     ja-rha-x-p-ti=na	ma	warhi	xepiti,
     be.there-FT-AOR-PAST-ASS.3s=EV	ART.INDF	woman	lazy
     "There was a lazy woman,"

     ima	warhi	xepi-ni,
     DEM	woman	be.lazy-NF
     "this woman was lazy,"

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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