5 terms are proclitics

i-

Definition:

He, she, it. new info

Function:

Third person nominative pronominal. Attach to the beginning of a verb.

Examples:

  1. iwačá ‘he/she/it was’;
  2. iwínaša pt̓íits ‘the girl is going’;
  3. iwiyánawiya wínš ‘the man arrived’;
  4. iwáp̓aša tílaaki ‘the woman is weaving’;
  5. iq̓ínuša wawúkyana ‘he/she sees the elk’;
  6. iq̓ínušaaš wawúkyanɨm ‘the elk sees me’;
  7. ku ipápaničɨnx̣ana ana mɨná ‘and they would bury one another anywhere’.

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pɨ́n (independent pronoun)

[NP /hi-/.]

Pronoun chart new info

kʷa=

Indefinite, unknown. kʷapáyš tiičám isɨ́nwitat̓aša ‘wonder if the ground wants to speak’; inmíkni tilamíkni pawačá kʷamɨ́łman ‘on my grandfather’s side were how many?’; ana kʷamɨ́łpan anwíčtpa kúušx̣i iwačá k̓sɨ́t čáw táy máan wínatay ‘in however many years was it similarly so cold not for going anywhere?’; kʷamíš máan míš ašwaníyama áw pawínana ‘somehow the slaves went somewhere’; kʷɨ́ni mɨ́ł kʷapačwáywit ku patáˀɨnna kʷaaná wínšna ‘from there maybe a few weeks and they told that man’; aw míš kʷaˀáw ƛ̓áax̣ʷ kʷná mayní čáw pawɨ́šayča ‘or somehow now in some way they all passed away’.

pa-

Definition:

They new info

Function:

Third person plural nominative pronominal.

Examples:

  1. pawá ‘they are’;
  2. patk̓ítana ‘they will watch us’;
  3. pawáašax̣ana ‘they used to dance’;
  4. ku kúuk pattáwax̣ta naamí tkʷátat ‘and then our foods will grow’.

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[NP plural /pe-/ is nominative without sensitivity to person.]

Indefinite

kʷa= ‘unspecified, unknown’.

Unknown

kʷa= ‘indefinite, unspecified’.