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Quechua
Suffix
-naya
- Desiderative. To want to, to feel like.
- mikhuy (“to eat”) → mikhunayay "to be hungry (lit. to want to eat)"
- Proximative. To be about to, to be close to.
- paray (“to rain”) → paranayay "to be about to rain"
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