Part of Speech: transitive verb

Turn on light. átkʷaplaqayx̣ik ‘turn the light on!’. [NP /wel´wk/.]

Talk in sign language. Thomas Morning Owl.

Steal by pocketing with the hand.

Point out, gesture, point the finger. kumataš kúuk wačá tímani tiičám tkʷáptuski ‘and then your reservation was pointed out’; tkʷáptuski iwačá ‘it was pointed out’. [NP /tkʷépkeˀeyk/.]

Rid of evil influence.

Stretch out the arm. pinátkʷapt̓ux̣ša ‘he is stretching his arm out’; itkʷápt̓ux̣a ‘he stretched out his arm(s)’ (Jacobs 1931:164).

Move the hand.

Gather together with the hands. itkʷápwaak̓uka x̣áwšna ‘she gathered up the cous’.

Raise the hand, put the hand up in the air. itkʷápwaaluukša apáp ‘he’s raising his hand up in the air’; túyay itkʷápwaaluuka ‘why did he raise his hand?’; wiyátkʷapwaaluuk ‘raise the hand in passing’. [Y tkʷápwiiluuk; NP /tkʷapláhsa/.]

Accidentally bump or hit with the hand. tkʷápwaananp̓anaaš (apáp) aycáwaspa ‘I accidentally hit my hand on the chair’. [Y tkʷápwiinanp̓a.]

Put the hand in the door. [NP /tkʷepeylék/.]

Stick the hand out. itkʷápwaanayta apáp wayx̣tiłákni ‘he stuck his hand out from the car’. [NP /tkʷepeléht/.]

Rid of evil influence.

Raise the hand. [NP /tkʷapláhsa/.]

Definition:

To eat.

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Examples:

1. náktkʷata ‘invite to eat’;
2. nátkʷata ‘eat while talking’;
3. šapátkʷata ‘feed, have eat’;
4. táwtkʷata ‘eat at night’;
5. tkʷátatˀuyi ‘start to eat’;
6. tkʷátatnaq̓i ‘finish eating’;
7. tkʷátatwana ‘eat with’;
8. tkʷátat̓a ‘want to eat’;
9. wáatkʷata ‘pause to eat’;
10. wiyátkʷata ‘eat on the way’;
11. tkʷatałá ‘eater’;
12. tkʷatanáł ‘without eating’;
13. tkʷátat ‘eating, food’;
14. ku kʷná patkʷátaša ‘and there they are eating’;
15. ku patkʷáta ‘and they have eaten’;
16. ana kʷná patkʷátax̣a kákyama ‘where the animals eat’;
17. kúušx̣i itkʷátax̣ana áwtni tkʷátat ‘in the same way he would eat the tabooed food’;
18. ku k̓ʷapɨ́n patátkʷatayix̣a tɨ́x̣ˀuyit ‘and they eat his aforementioned first kill’;
19. aw kú iwínana itkʷátatana ánč̓ax̣i Wawatáway ‘then Antelope went to eat again’;
20. tkʷátatamtk ‘come eat!’;
21. átq̓ix̣šaaš pyax̣ína tkʷátat ‘I am wishing for bitterroot to eat’;
22. túnmaš wáta tkʷátat kʷɨ́ni ‘what will you have to eat from that?’;

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[NP /hp/; S perhaps related to tkʷa- ‘swimming (of fish)’ (cf. tkʷalá ‘small fish’ Jacobs 1931:169) or NP /tkʷé-/ ‘in hunting’ (/tkʷéwi/ ‘return from hunting’ Aoki 1994:793).]

Eat something for the first time, as when a baby starts eating solid food. itkʷátatˀuyiša ‘he is eating it for the first time’; patkʷátatˀuyiša ‘they are starting to eat’.

Finish eating. patkʷátatnaq̓iya ‘they finished eating’. [NP /hpnáq̓i/

Eat with. itkʷátatwaašaaš ‘he is eating with me’; itkʷátatwaatat̓ašaaš ‘she wants to eat with me’.

Want to eat. átkʷatat̓ašaaš pyax̣ína ‘I want to eat bitterroot’. [NP /hpt̓pécwi/.]

Put a saliently one dimensional object in water. [Cf. NE tkʷáyuun; NW tkʷayliin (Jacobs 1929:185:1) & NP /tkʷeyúu/ ‘lie just below surface of water’ (vi.).]