Part of Speech: adverb

While doing something else. wáqʷatusklisklin ‘have the head down while looking around’. [NP /wt´-/.]

To excess. wɨt̓uˀát̓iš iwá ‘it’s overripe or overcooked’; wit̓úx̣laknaš paníya ‘they gave me too much’; aa wɨt̓úx̣lak ipášwišana ‘oh it was way too expensive’; wɨt̓ú miimá iwá twá čáw táy pátuktay ‘the poles are too old to set up’ (wɨt̓ú miimá ‘too old’ isn’t used for humans, only for inanimates and animals; but cf. wɨt̓u miimá iwá ‘he is too old’ Jacobs 1931:156); wɨt̓úx̣lak ‘too much, too many’; wɨt̓ú x̣lakníin ‘a little too much’ (Millstein 1990b).

On foot, walking. iwínaša wɨx̣akíil ‘he is going on foot’; wɨx̣akíil iwínana Cáan ‘John went on foot’. [NP /ˀx̣weki/.]

Definition:

Separately.

Example:

aníyayitanam tún tkʷátat xáaw ‘he will make some food for you separately’.

Occurs after certain prefixes. Indicates action all the way through. čáx̣ičanwi ‘take down’; páx̣ƛ̓k ‘put in a partition’; qáax̣ayt ‘fall out’; šáx̣ƛ̓k ‘cut’; šx̣ɨ́ƛ̓k ‘cut (distributive object)’; yáx̣ta ‘pour’; wax̣úun ‘paddle (canoe)’; yáx̣ikaša ‘pour on’; yaxáylak ‘pour into’; tamáx̣anp̓a ‘lean against, lie against’; tamx̣paláyk ‘misplace’; twáx̣aynak ‘poke in’; twáx̣ƛ̓k ‘mark off’; tamáx̣anp̓a ‘lean against’; táx̣ɨnp ‘hold on lap’; qáx̣ayt ‘fall out’; wáx̣ƛ̓k ‘cut with scythe’.

With the face. x̣ɨ́tway ‘friend, companion’; x̣ɨ́twayn ‘converse with’.

Suddenly, uncaused. x̣álk̓uk ‘be startled’; íx̣alk̓uk ‘give a sudden scare’; x̣áwat̓a ‘slide on ice or mud’. Also tx̣á-, tqá-. qá-. [NP /tqe-/.]

All night, till dawn. iwinána x̣áayx̣ ‘he went all night’; x̣áayx̣ it̓úx̣t̓ux̣šana ku áw iníix̣ɨn ‘it was raining all night and now it has cleared up’. [NP cik̓ik̓éet /ck̓k̓ét/.]

Indeed must have. páaax̣amx̣ašta k̓ʷáy kúuš átɨnx̣ana ‘five times indeed that one must have gone out’; ku kúuk papx̣ʷíta, kúušx̣ašta míimi iwačá nč̓ínč̓i naamí tanánwit ‘and then they will think: long ago the Indian way of our elders surely must have been like that’; ayáyatx̣ašta áwača ‘theirs must have been beautiful’; kʷnáx̣ašta páyš čáw iwɨ́šayča ‘maybe he didn’t pass away there’; kʷáalx̣ašta pánakwinana čúušin ‘the water surely must have brought him that far’; iwačáx̣ašta kskɨ́s wána ‘there indeed must have been a little creek’. [NW =x̣aštx̣.]

Expectantly. x̣ic̓íit ikálaˀayša ‘he is sitting around expecting something’.