Part of Speech: adverb

Wonderment. kʷata kú míš pap̓ɨ́x̣ta kʷaaná ‘maybe they’ll remember that’; ku iwíˀaniya túmaaman kʷa ‘and he made each thing’; kʷata kú míš iwá níix̣ aw míšk̓a iwá mɨlá ‘wonder then whether it is good or whether it is bad’; kʷašta kú mɨ́ł wačá anwíčt ‘surely then however many years’; míšata kʷá ‘oh! for crying out loud! forever more!’.

That long, that tall, that far. kʷáal iwá núsux ‘the salmon is that long’; kʷáalna wínaša ‘we are going that far, we are going for that long a time’; kʷáal pawiyáninx̣ana ‘they used to travel around that far’; k̓ʷáyš áw kʷáal sɨ́nwi ‘that long now I have spoken’; kʷáalnaš ínč̓a šapáwac̓aakɨn sɨ́nwit ‘that long I have put my language on (the tape recorder)’; k̓ʷáynaš kʷáal ín šúkʷaša ‘that far I know’; kʷáalnaš áw k̓ʷáy šúkʷašana ‘that far now I knew that’; ana kʷáal iwá tiičám či ‘as far as this land is’; kʷáal x̣ašta pánakwinana čúušin ‘maybe the water brought him that far’; kʷáalnam panaknúwita ‘they will take care of you that long’; nápt áwača níit pakʷaalpáyn ‘they had two houses that far along each side’; k̓ʷáyš áw kʷáal sɨ́nwi ‘that far now I have spoken’; kʷáalisɨm ‘always’. [NE kʷaˀálk; NW kʷáalk; NP /kahál/.]

Always, all the time, forever. kʷáalisim iwačá níitpa ‘he was always at home’; atya kú iwá kʷáalisim payúwi ‘when he is always sick’; kʷáalisim pinálawša ‘he always lies around’; kʷáalisimmaš naknúwita imanáy ‘I will always take care of you’; iwɨ́šayča níitpa kʷáalisɨm ‘and he stayed in the house always’; ana k̓ʷapɨ́n iwá ku kʷáalisɨm iwačá áwtni ‘that which is and always was tabooed’. [NW kʷalíisim (Jacobs 1931:258, 263); NP /kʷ´nk̓u/.]

All day. iwinána kʷíilawit ‘he went all day’. Also kʷɨ́laawit.