Definition:
Towards to the speaker or the speaker side. Also has the meaning of appearing up, coming out of, or an action suddenly comes up to the speaker.
Function:
Cislocative directional. After vowel. Attach to verbs.
Example:
- wínam (or wínɨm) ‘come!’;
- ášɨm ‘come in!’;
- yíknɨm ‘hear me!’;
- páyknɨm ‘hear me!’;
- wánwim ‘come down!’;
- wáwnayim ‘excuse me!’;
- sápsik̓ʷanɨm sɨ́nwit ‘teach me the language’;
- wɨ́npatam čí útpas ‘come get this blanket!’;
- tkʷátatamtk ‘come and eat!’;
- wáawiyanawiyawamtk ‘come stop in for a while!’;
- wáatkʷatamtk ‘come eat!’;
- ku iyáwaaypx̣ɨma ‘and he came floating downstream’;
- ana k̓ʷapɨ́n míimi pášapawinama naamímaaman nč̓ínč̓imaaman ‘the aforementioned who long ago had our ancestors come here’;
- panáytimaaš ‘I came up’;
- ttáwax̣nɨmaaš ‘I grew up here’;
- iwámš ‘he is coming’;
- pátwanɨmta ɨsípin x̣áwšin ‘her younger sister the cous will come following her [the celery]’;
- itúnišama ‘he was coming upstream’;
- ix̣áyx̣šamš ‘it is dawning’;
- iq̓ínwatax̣amšnaš ‘she comes to see me’;
- ku ánč̓ax̣i iwáanaynačtux̣ʷɨnx̣ama ‘and he would come back inside again’.
See more:
–kik (translocative directional)
[NP /-m/.]