tkʷáta

Definition:

To eat.

Examples:

  1. náktkʷata ‘invite to eat’;
  2. nátkʷata ‘eat while talking’;
  3. šapátkʷata ‘feed, have eat’;
  4. táwtkʷata ‘eat at night’;
  5. tkʷátatˀuyi ‘start to eat’;
  6. tkʷátatnaq̓i ‘finish eating’;
  7. tkʷátatwana ‘eat with’;
  8. tkʷátat̓a ‘want to eat’;
  9. wáatkʷata ‘pause to eat’;
  10. wiyátkʷata ‘eat on the way’;
  11. tkʷatałá ‘eater’;
  12. tkʷatanáł ‘without eating’;
  13. tkʷátat ‘eating, food’;
  14. ku kʷná patkʷátaša ‘and there they are eating’;
  15. ku patkʷáta ‘and they have eaten’;
  16. ana kʷná patkʷátax̣a kákyama ‘where the animals eat’;
  17. kúušx̣i itkʷátax̣ana áwtni tkʷátat ‘in the same way he would eat the tabooed food’;
  18. ku k̓ʷapɨ́n patátkʷatayix̣a tɨ́x̣ˀuyit ‘and they eat his aforementioned first kill’;
  19. aw kú iwínana itkʷátatana ánč̓ax̣i Wawatáway ‘then Antelope went to eat again’;
  20. tkʷátatamtk ‘come eat!’;
  21. átq̓ix̣šaaš pyax̣ína tkʷátat ‘I am wishing for bitterroot to eat’;
  22. túnmaš wáta tkʷátat kʷɨ́ni ‘what will you have to eat from that?’;

See more:

[NP /hp/; S perhaps related to tkʷa- ‘swimming (of fish)’ (cf. tkʷalá ‘small fish’ Jacobs 1931:169) or NP /tkʷé-/ ‘in hunting’ (/tkʷéwi/ ‘return from hunting’ Aoki 1994:793).]