-a

Function:

Archaic indicative frozen in various suffixes. Forms verb.

Examples:

  1. -aša ‘on, upon’;
  2. -ata ‘go for a purpose’;
  3. -awa (directive);
  4. -ayi (applicative);
  5. -ničanwi ‘down’;
  6. -ničapa ‘in or into brush’;
  7. -ničaša ‘on, upon’;
  8. níyawštayma ‘reciprocate with money to one who is receiving a name and from whom a gift has been received’.

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[NP /-e/.]