tmíyun

Plan, plot, decide, suggest. itmíyuna ‘he planned’; patmíyuša páx̣amt ‘they’re planning the powwow’; ku itmíyuna áwnaš wɨ́npta ínč̓a waníčt ‘and he decided, “now I too will receive my name”‘; itmíyuša tímašna ititámat ‘he is suggesting the paper to read’; pšɨ́t itmíyuna áwna wínaša ‘my father suggested, “we are going now”‘; wínax̣aataš ášuyatax̣a x̣nítna kutaš kúuk tmíyunx̣a káˀuyitki ‘we go check the roots and then we decide about the root feast’; ana kú itmíyuna pɨ́n ‘when he decided’; itmíyunayiša áswanina ‘he is suggesting it for the boy’; aš kʷɨ́nki wáatmiyuun ‘let me pause to think about that’; tmíyuni ‘decided’. [NP /tmmíyun/; probably /tm-/ ‘intentionally’ plus a nondiminutive form of the bound /myon/ ‘express oneself’ (Aoki 1994:433).]