117 terms are verbs

-k

Imperative. yáx̣ʷak ‘wait!’; tútik ‘stand up!’; kʷáan kúk ‘go away!’; áq̓inunk ‘look at it!’; ánik ‘give it to him!’; apáp áwɨnpayik ‘shake hands!’; čáw tíyak ‘don’t laugh!’. With adjunct -n after an obstruent (-nk): tímaš wɨ́npɨnk ‘pick up your papers!’; áyčɨnk ‘sit down!’; páykɨnk ‘hear me!’. Deletes after cislocative -m: wínam ‘come!’; ášɨm ‘come in!’; átɨm ‘come out!’; wɨ́npatam čí útpas ‘come get this blanket!’. Pluralized by -t, e.g. wínamtk ‘you all come!’. [NP /-k/ (after consonants), /-y/ (after vowels).]

-kik

Definition:

Away from the speaker or the speaker side. Also has the meaning of disappearing, going away, or an action suddenly occurs away from the speaker. Implies ‘further on’ from some point already away from the speaker.


Function:

Translocative directional. Attack to the verbs.


Examples:

  1. iwínakika ‘he went on’;
  2. ku kúuk sɨ́nwit iwáanačičɨnkika naamíyaw níityaw ‘and then he sent word on to our house’;
  3. kʷɨ́łnaš k̓ʷáy ínč̓a tɨmnanáx̣ɨnkikš ‘that much further also I have told the story’;
  4. ku aw kú iwaanáytɨnkika saysáy ‘and then the worm went on out’;
  5. Reduces to -yk after the aspects.
    1. áwš wayčát̓ašaykš ‘now I am wanting to cross on over’;
    2. ku iwáanaytɨnx̣ayka ‘and he would go on out’.

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-yk (after the aspects).

[NE -čič; NP /-kik/.]

Abilitative

-tax̣na ‘can, could’.

Adjunct

-n; -k.

Applicative

-yi; -ayi ‘for, of’.

Aspect

-ša (imperfective/progressive); -x̣a (habitual/frequentative aspect).

k̓úsk

Probable root in lák̓uušk ‘smoke’; tamák̓usk ‘cover over’. Cf. also k̓ʷɨ́š ‘muddy, soft’. [Cf. NP /k̓úxsn/ ‘be a mound, pile of dirt, etc.’.]

Augment

For verbal augments, see ɨ-; -k; .

Back

ninn ‘back and forth, here and there’ (bound root).

Can

-tax̣na (abilitative: ‘can, could’).

Cause

šapá- ~ sapá- (individuative causative); šáp- ~ sáp(distributive causative).

Cislocative

-m (-ɨm) ‘this way, hither’.

Complete

náq̓i ‘finish, end’ (bound root).

Conditional

-tax̣na (counterfactual conditional; abilitative ‘can, could’).

Could

-tax̣na (counterfactual conditional; abilitative: ‘can, could’).

Counterfactual

-tax̣na (counterfactual conditional; abilitative: ‘can, could’).

Cover

ƛ̓ɨmux̣ ‘be covered’ (bound root).

Crave

-pát̓a ‘desire, hunger after’ (denominative).

-lata

Into. sapáƛupwaalata ‘fish with a fixed net at a fish jumping place’; sapáwaalata ‘rope fish at a waterfall’; tamáwaalata ‘throw basketball through hoop, play basketball’; tamawaalatat̓áwas ‘hoop’; sulátas ‘leggings’. [NP /-lete/.]

-latx̣

In or into fire. pšálatx̣ ‘put a bunch in fire’; sulátx̣ ‘put a long object into fire’; tamálatx̣ ‘throw into fire’; tamáwaalatx̣ ‘throw into fire’; ƛúpwaalatx̣ ‘jump into fire’. [NP /-lat´q/.]