tún

Definition:

pron. What? Whatever, something, anything.

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Examples:

1. tún iwá ‘what is it?’;
2. tún iwá k̓ʷáy ‘what is that?’;
3. tún iwá čí ‘what is this?’;
4. túnmaš wá ‘what do you have?’;
5. tún waníči iwá ‘what is it named?’;
6. tún itíwaša ‘what smells?’;
7. túnam tkʷátašana čikúuk ‘what did you eat today?’;
8. tún ixʷítxʷitša ‘what is whistling?’;
9. tún patáwaničɨnx̣a ‘what do they name it?’;
10. tún iyáx̣aluuša waynatpamáyaw ‘what is he pouring into the cooking pot?’;
11. túnnam áw iwɨ́npayita ‘what of yours will it get now?’;
12. čáw iwačá tún łq̓íwit ‘it was not some game’;
13. ƛ̓áax̣ʷ inákwinana ana tún áwača ‘she brought everything that she had’;
14. ku áwa ayáyat pɨnmíin tún ‘and he had something beautiful’;
15. čúušapam tún ana tún iwá čáw níix̣ ‘you are drinking something which is not good’;
16. ana mɨná iwá tún káˀuyit ‘wherever there is any feast’;
17. kumaš payúwita apáp aw k̓ʷáyk̓a áw wɨx̣á ana tún ‘and your hand or foot, etc., will get sick’;
18. pawípax̣ʷišana tún ‘they are stealing each thing’;
19. čáw tún waníči tiičám ‘not any named land’;
20. pašúkʷašana ttún wíˀanit ‘they knew how to make things’;
21. ana tuntún iwá x̣nít túnx̣ wíwaniči ‘things which are differently named roots’;
22. tuntún áwača płɨ́x̣ ‘they had all kinds of medicine’
23. tún płɨ́x̣ay ‘things for medicine’;
24. tún tkʷátat ‘some food’;

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See more:

ana tún ‘something which, anything which, whatever, etc.’;

ƛ̓áax̣ʷ tún ‘everything‘;

túna (acc.);

túyay ‘for what’;

túyaw ‘to what’;

túpan ‘in what’;

túkin ‘with what’.

[NP /ˀitúu/.]