šúkʷa

Know, learn. Also pronounced šúka. kunam aw kú pašúkʷata ‘and then they will know you’; kupam kúuk aw kú ƛ̓áax̣ʷ šúkʷašata šapáwayx̣tit imáy ‘and then you all will be learning to make it [a machine] run’; kupam laˀák wiyáłamaykta kupam šúkʷašata čítaš wá naamí tkʷátat ‘and maybe you will get lost and then you will know: this is our food’; kuna čáw šúkʷaša mayní wíˀanit tún taxʷɨsmí ‘and we do not know how to make things out of dogbane’; ana šína pɨ́n išúkʷaša ‘whomever he knows’; šúkʷašapam šuyapunmí sɨ́nwit ‘you know the language of the whites’; níix̣maš šúkʷaan ‘it is nice to have met you’; níix̣maš imanáyč̓a šúkʷaan ‘nice to have met you too’; k̓ʷałámaš imanáy šúkʷaan ‘glad I have met you’; čáwš ášukʷayiša tanán waníčt ‘I don’t know its Indian name’; ačašta kú pɨ́nɨm ƛ̓áax̣ʷ išúkʷayišamš pináwšuwat ‘because he knows all the getting of myself ready’; kunam ƛ̓áax̣ʷ išúkʷayišamš imanáy łk̓ʷí wáwtukt ‘and he knows all your days’; šúkʷatx̣awn ‘find out right away’; šúkʷayat̓a ‘want to know’; šúkʷani ‘known’. Also pronounced šúka. [NP /cúkwen/.]