Part of Speech: intransitive verb

Lie on the back. Bound root. táwx̣a ‘lie on the back’; táwx̣aninn ‘lay around’; x̣ánayk ‘lie on the back’; qáx̣anayk ‘fall backward’; qáx̣anayti ‘fall over’; qáx̣awaanayk ‘slide on the back’. Possible source of habitual aspect marker -x̣a. [Cf. NW qá in látamqatn ‘lie on the back’ (Jacobs 1937:31.13.1, pg. 73); qátamqatn ‘lie on the back’ (Jacobs 1937:31.18.3, pg. 74); Y qanáyk ‘lie on the back’; NP /ˀqán/ ‘lie on the back’.]

Be loosened, scraped off, stripped off, peeled off, sliced off; crawl under. Bound. čáwaax̣aap ‘put liner in tepee or tent’; páx̣aap ‘bake in oven’; sápx̣ʷaap ‘crawl under’; súx̣aap ‘put under, put in oven’; šáx̣aap ‘saw, saw boards as in a sawmill’; šnúx̣aap ‘look underneath’; šx̣áap ‘slice for frying’; tamáwaax̣aap ‘throw under’; tamáx̣aap ‘line, put in a lining’; tkʷápx̣aap ‘pick at’; wáax̣aap ‘drive under a viaduct, go into a cave or tunnel’; wiyáx̣aap ‘go into the next room’; x̣áˀap ‘the next room’. [NP /x̣aˀapn/ ‘be stripped off’; /x̣eˀepn/ ‘crawl under’.]

Be greedy. ix̣áašwiša ‘he is getting greedy’; x̣áašwiyi iwá ‘he is a greedy person’. [NP /x̣´x̣eswi/.]

Be startled. ix̣álk̓uka ana kú páwiyakyawana k̓usik̓úsiin mítični porchkni ‘she got startled when the dog charged out at her from under the porch’; íx̣alk̓uk ‘give a sudden scare’. [NE tx̣álk̓uk.]

Be intoxicated. ix̣alúyša ‘he is drunk’; x̣alúyni ‘intoxicated, drunk’. [NP /x̣éluyn/.]

Act up, cry around when mother pregnant. ix̣antátwiša ‘he is acting up’; ix̣antátwiša miyánaš ‘the child is acting up because its mother is pregnant’. [NP /qetétwi/.]

Split, part. ix̣ápaaša ɨščɨ́t ‘the road is splitting’.

Fall noisily. ix̣átamanašana kiwkíwlac ‘the drum fell down noisily’.

Starve. ix̣átkʷaytašana Spilyáy ‘Coyote was starving’; ix̣átkʷaytaša čáw tún áwa tkʷátat ‘he is starving, he has no food’; áwnam x̣átkʷaytaša x̣áy ‘you are starving now, friend’. [NE kíinn; tx̣átkʷayta; NP /sk̓ʷlín/; /ˀel´wtn̓kʷn/ ‘starve in winter’.]

Spill all over, spread out. ix̣áwaƛ̓aka čúuš ‘the water spilled all over’; šapáx̣awaƛ̓aki ‘pancakes’.

Dawn. áw ix̣áyx̣šamš ‘it’s dawning now’; máycqi ix̣áyx̣na ‘morning dawned’; wiyáx̣ayx̣n ‘live from day to day’; x̣áyx̣t ‘dawn’. [NP /káaˀawn/.]

Hatch. pax̣íina píitpiitma ‘the chicks are hatching’. Examples are transitive in Beavert & Hargus (2010). [NP /wáwt̓kʷck/.]