Part of Speech: pronoun

Alone. Co-occurs with pronominal -k. ku aw kú itqáwača áswan pɨlksásɨmk̓a ‘and then the boy was suddenly all alone’; anam kú wɨ́šayčta imksá ‘when you will come to be alone’; ilksá ‘I alone’; imksá ‘you alone’; pɨlksá ‘he, she, it alone’; piiliksá ‘they two alone’; paalaksá ‘him, her, it alone’; pawalaksá ‘twins’; lak̓isá ‘edge, end’. [NP /=ciwátq/.]

Who? whoever, someone, anyone. Ergative case. anam šínɨm ikútkutša ‘whoever is working you’. [NP /ˀisíinm/.]

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/.]

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’.]

Of what? of something. tumíintya áwača wátisas ‘but of what else was the rope [made]?’. [NP /ˀitúunm/.]

Whatever. ana túntya áw paˀanítat̓ax̣ana ku paˀanítax̣ana taxʷɨ́s ‘whatever then that they would want to make they would go make dogbane’.

Whatchamacallit, such and such. kʷyáam iwačá túwaašɨn ‘truly it was whatchamacallit’; tuwaašɨnmí iwačá aníyi ‘it was made of whatchamacallit’. [NW táakʷɨn; NP /t̓wa/.]