An Inflectional Puzzle

Here's a puzzle for anyone who's interested:

Below I'm going to show you some nouns in this particular conlang.
These nouns are all in their base, dictionary form (which happens to be
agent singular).  I'll give you the inflected form of each noun
(inflected to be in the patient singular form).

All of the inflection/derivation in this language is entirely regular.
The inflected form is predictable from the base form, and the base form
is predictable from the inflected form.

Examples (agent sg., then patient sg.)
   maruwi > tarudi
   kiru > firu
   antiki > antifi
   yunta > zunta
   talzu > manku
   nantuva > nantuga
   piti > pimi
   sazhinu > ngazhinu
   miruzhi > tiruzhi
   shizu > shiyu
   tazha > mazha
   murta > tumpa
   kinga > fisa
   ankari > alzari

All syllables are phonemically CV in structure.  Clusters such as "nt"
or "lz" are a single phoneme that take an epenthetic "a" before them
when word initial.

Can you predict what the patient sg. forms of these words would be?
   gayara >
   vilzu >
   fana >
   shari >
   rizuwa >
   muzha >

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