Who? whoever, someone, anyone. Ergative case. anam šínɨm ikútkutša ‘whoever is working you’. [NP /ˀisíinm/.]
108 terms are pronouns
šúwaašɨn
What’s his name, so-andso. Used when not remembering a name. máysx iwiyánawita šúwaašɨn ‘so-and-so will arrive tomorrow’; áp̓x̣šaaš šúwaašɨn ‘I remember soand-so’. [NW šáakʷɨn; NP /t̓wa/.]
Ours
ttúuš
Some. ttúuš iwá pyax̣í pƛɨ́k ‘some bitterroot is bitter’; ttúušma pawinanína ‘some ran away’; ttúušma patáwaničɨnx̣a xɨ́sya ‘some call it xɨ́sya‘; ttúuš tímaš ‘some paper’; ttúušma tanánma ‘some people’; ttúušma ‘some people’. [NP tatóˀs /ttoˀs/; tatoˀósma ~ tatóˀsma /ttoˀsma/ ‘some people’.]
tumíin
Of what? of something. tumíintya áwača wátisas ‘but of what else was the rope [made]?’. [NP /ˀitúunm/.]
túntya
Whatever. ana túntya áw paˀanítat̓ax̣ana ku paˀanítax̣ana taxʷɨ́s ‘whatever then that they would want to make they would go make dogbane’.
túwaašɨn
Whatchamacallit, such and such. kʷyáam iwačá túwaašɨn ‘truly it was whatchamacallit’; tuwaašɨnmí iwačá aníyi ‘it was made of whatchamacallit’. [NW táakʷɨn; NP /t̓wa/.]
Same
=x̣i ‘same, similar’ (ínx̣i ‘I similarly’; k̓ʷapɨ́nx̣i ‘that same one’).
She
pɨ́n ‘he, she, it’ (nominative); pɨ́nɨm ‘he, she, it’ (ergative).
So-and-so
šúwaašɨn ‘what’s his name, so-and-so’.
Somebody
šín ‘whoever, someone, anyone, anybody’.
Theirs
paamíin ‘theirs, their’ (plural); piinamíin ‘theirs, their’ (dual).
Them
- paamanáy (plural);
- piinamanáy ‘them two’ (dual).
These
čɨ́ma (plural); čiiní ‘these two’ (dual).
They
Those
kúma ~ kʷɨ́ma (plural); kʷiiní ‘those two’ (dual).
To
-yawáy (emphatic allative case).
Toward
-kaní (emphatic versative case).
Us
náaman; naamanáy; napiinamanáy ‘us two’ (dual).