-i

Function:

Verbalizer. Forms verb.


Examples:

  1. ámani ‘marry’ (of a woman);
  2. ˀawtaši ‘wound with an arrow (or bullet)’;
  3. čáksksi ‘make small’;
  4. čáynači ‘marry’ (of a man);
  5. čx̣áwi ‘be fat’;
  6. íkkmi ‘fill’;
  7. íkuuksɨmi ‘straighten out’;
  8. íniix̣i ‘fix’;
  9. íƛ̓ɨmx̣ʷi ‘cover’;
  10. kúuki ‘cook’;
  11. lák̓ʷšk̓ʷši ‘turn brown from roasting’;
  12. láqayx̣i ‘shine’;
  13. láx̣yawi ‘dry’;
  14. lax̣ʷayx̣łáyi ‘have the flu’;
  15. łáyłayi ‘have measles, pox’;
  16. páščti ‘mist, be misty’;
  17. sapátaawayi ‘freeze’;
  18. skúuli ‘go to school’;
  19. sulátasi ‘put on leggings’;
  20. šapáłkapi ‘have arthritis’;
  21. šátɨmi ‘be autumn’;
  22. tamc̓íc̓iti ‘hail’;
  23. táatpasi ‘put on like a shirt’;
  24. tilíwali ‘bleed’;
  25. tuní ‘strike a match’;
  26. t̓úx̣t̓ux̣i ‘rain’;
  27. wawáx̣ɨmi ‘be spring’;
  28. wɨłq̓ámi ‘put on moccasins’.
  29. Productive with borrowed words:
    1. *town*i ‘go to town’;
    2. *watch*i ‘watch’.

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[NP /-hi/.]