Nickname formation

[bowersd]

Nicknames are often formed by truncation of the last syllable of a VAI: gaashkjaane (have a split nose) -> gaashkjaan.

An example I encountered was gaashkjaanzh ... which is surprising because jaanzh is the independent form of "nose", not what you would expect in a verb. So it would have been /gaashkjaanzh/ -> [gaashkjaanzh] (no truncation ... not exactly sure what morphological process would produce this combination), not /gaashkjaanzhe/ -> [gaashkjaanzh] (truncation).