Part of Speech: adverb

A little while. kaˀáwnaš ínč̓a wačá kʷná ‘I was there a little while also’.

Recalling, remembering, come to think of it; or else. kac̓áxata kʷná pawá Wawatáwyama ‘I indeed remember the Antelopes are there’; kac̓áxnaš áp̓x̣ša ‘so I remember it’; kac̓áxnašta áp̓x̣ša ‘so indeed I remember it’; kac̓áxata watím kúuš ináwača ‘just recalling she said that yesterday’. [K kayac̓áax̣ (Jacobs 1937:32.2.2, pg. 80).]

In weaving. kalúlak̓i ‘finish weaving’; kanútk ‘unfinished’.

Softly, not loud.

Presently, recently, just now. kpáyl pawínata ‘in a little while they will go’; kpáylnam wiyánawiya ‘you finally got here’; kpáylx̣iš tkʷátašana ‘I similarly was eating not long ago’; k̓ʷáy kpáyl iwína ‘he has just left’. [N kpáylk.]

Quickly, hurriedly; hurry up! ktúktu wínam ‘hurry come!’; ktúktu tímak ‘hurry write!’; ktúktu áwna wínaša ‘hurry up! we’re going’; ktúktu kúk ‘do it fast!’; ktúktu wɨ́npatak ‘hurry go get it!’; ktúktu wɨłq̓ámik ‘hurry put your moccasins on!’. See also kɨ́tu.

In that manner, that way, thusly. kúuš pasɨ́nwix̣ana nč̓ínč̓ima ‘thusly the elders used to say’; kúuštaš łq̓íwix̣ana maysxmáysx ‘we would play that way every day’; kúuš iwačá miimi ‘it was like that long ago’; paˀílax̣yawitax̣ana nɨkʷɨ́t kúušx̣i núsux kúušx̣i x̣nít ‘they used to go dry meat and salmon and roots’; čáw mɨná iwačá aníyi tamicáwas ana kúuš wá čikúuk ‘nowhere was there a man made cemetery like we have today’; ƛ̓áax̣ʷna wá pápanaymuni ana kúuš lɨ́xskni ttáwax̣tkni ‘we are all related to each other as from a single pedigree’; pakúussimna ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pamáwapawata ‘we’ll all dress up the same’; kʷɨ́ł áw kúuš ‘that’s all’ (said at the end of a speech); kúušx̣i ‘in the same way, similarly’; ana kúuš ‘like, as, such as’. [NE kuˀúš; NW íkuš, íkušk; kúšk; NP /kuˀús/.]

At that time, then. ku kúukx̣i kú iwɨ́npta tanán waníčt ‘and at the same time then he will get his Indian name’; kúukx̣i ‘at the same time’; pakúuk ‘sometimes’; čikúuk ‘today’. [NP kawá.]

In the way. k̓áaptnam áyša ‘you are sitting in the way’. [NP /k̓l´k/.]

Presently, soon. Reduced from mak̓í.

Fast, quickly, of quick tempo, fast rhythmic beat. k̓ɨmsak̓ɨ́msa wáašak ‘dance fast!’; maykk̓ɨmsak̓ɨ́msa wáašatk ‘speed it up in your dancing!’; maykk̓ɨmsak̓ɨ́msa ‘jazzier’. [Y k̓ɨmsá.]