warhi

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 and 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,

References

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