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Definition:

A thing, person, or people specifically does something for work or habits. Also a person or people from a region. equivalent to English -er, -or, -ian.

Function:

Agentive nominalizer. Forms nouns.

Examples:

1. aniłá ‘maker’;
2. paykłá ‘obedient’;
3. waasklikłá ‘wheel’;
4. lax̣ʷayx̣łá ‘one who gets overheated’;
5. sapsik̓ʷałá ‘teacher’;
6. šax̣aapłá ‘sawyer, millwright’;
7. wapaatałá ‘helper’;
8. naknuwiłá ‘keeper, care taker’;
9. uyiłá ‘beginner’;
10. wanpłá ‘medicine singer’;
11. wapaanłá ‘grizzly bear’;
12. wawyałá ‘whipman’;
13. tamaˀuyiłá ‘lead off person (stick-game, baseball, etc.)’;
14. pstxłá ‘blacksmith’;
15. waasklikłá ‘wheel’;
16. wawc̓aakłá k̓úsimaaman ‘horse shoer’;
17. tkʷaynpłáma ‘hunters’;
18. x̣niłáma ‘root diggers’.
19. Also suffixes to nouns in Columbia River:
    1. Imatalamłá ‘Umatilla person’;
    2. Hawtmiłáma ‘McKay Creek people’.

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[NP /-ew̓et(u)/.]

Definition:

From, out of (from), off (from).

Functions:

Ablative case. Attach to nouns.

Examples:

1. pawiyánawiya Ímatalamkni ‘they arrived from Umatilla’;
2. pínapu pawačá inmíkni tilamíkni ‘there were four from my maternal grandfather’s side’;
3. ača kú tmɨ́š iwiyáwat̓wix̣a ƛ̓áax̣ʷkni ana tún iwá tmaanít ‘because the chokecherry leads from all that is the fruit’;
4. itináytšamš x̣ʷiyáytškni ‘he backed out of the sweathouse’;
5. itiyánpa tílaaki miyuux̣míkni ‘he took the woman away from the chief’;
6. kúuk ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pɨnmíin wáwnakʷšaš ápinawšuwanx̣a špámkni ánɨmiyaw ‘then all its body gets itself ready from autumn to winter’;
7. ƛ̓áax̣ʷna wá pápanaymuni ana kúuš lɨ́xskni ttáwax̣tkni ‘we are all related to each other as from a single pedigree’;
8. ičúuša wánakni ‘he is drinking out of the creek’;
9. iƛúpwaaničanwiya pšwákni ‘he jumped off the rock’;
10. k̓ʷáy iwá sápsik̓ʷat míimikni ‘that is the teaching from long ago’;
11. inákpaaša luc̓áan mɨqɨ́škni ‘she is separating the red from the orange’;
12. aw kú iwáynana x̣ʷayamá inmíkni ‘then the eagle flew from me’;
13. x̣ʷayamá iwáynana naamíkni ‘the eagle flew away from us’;
14. napiinamíkni iwáynana ‘he flew away from us two’;
15. mɨ́taat x̣áyx̣ pačwáywitkni ‘three days from Sunday’;
16. núšnukni tilíwal ‘nose bleed’.

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[N -knik; NP /-kn̓ik/; cf. Klamath -kni (Barker 1963b:188).]

Function:

Purposive. Forms verb.

Examples:

1. patátamanikatata ‘they will go plant them’;
2. ášapalulukatak ‘go nurse him!’;
3. iq̓ínwatax̣amšnaš ‘she comes to see me’;
4. amaš áwaaq̓inwatak ‘go have a look at them!’;
5. kutaš ánč̓ax̣i x̣ʷyáyčatata ‘and we will go sweat again’;
6. áw ánč̓wataša pšɨ́t ‘now his dad’s going to go to bed’;
7. pinátisx̣p̓itkatak ‘go comb your hair!’
8. ku pawínax̣ana patmaanítax̣ana tmɨ́šna ‘and they used to go to pick the chokecherry’;
9. wɨ́npata ‘go get, fetch’.
10. ačataš kú wínata x̣nɨ́mˀuyiyatata mɨtáłk̓ʷipa ‘because we will go do the first digging on Wednesday’;
11. wáyx̣tix̣ana wɨ́npatax̣a aq̓uwitpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘we run to buy cough medicine’;
12. kʷnáta kú patánakwinata xúlxulmaaman patátamanikatata ‘there then indeed they will haul the trout and plant them’.
13. ášapaˀatayitak lúlukaš ‘go milk (the cow)!’;
14. Reduces to -ta after a vowel:
    1. áwna łq̓íwitaša ‘let us go play’;
    2. čáwnam mún łq̓íwitata ana kʷná iwá tamicáwas ‘you should never go play where there is a cemetery’;
    3. paˀílax̣yawitax̣ana nɨkʷɨ́t kúušx̣i núsux kúušx̣i x̣nít ‘they used to go dry meat and salmon and roots’;
    4. paˀanítax̣ana Ímatalamyaw ‘they would go to Umatilla in order to make it’;
    5. patáwɨnpayitana tílaaki ‘they went to get him a wife’;
    6. ana pmáy pamáwšuwaša x̣nítatyaw ‘they who are getting themselves ready to go root digging’;
    7. tkʷáyta ‘throw, throw a spear’. Often occurs with a motion verb (such as wína ‘go’):
    8. wínašapam skúulitaša ‘you are going to school’;
    9. ku pawínax̣ana patmaanítax̣ana tmɨ́šna ‘and they would go pick the chokecherry’;
    10. wínanaataš x̣nítana ‘we went root digging’;
    11. kunam páyš wínata x̣nítata kʷaaní ‘and maybe you will go root digging in that direction’;
    12. kutaš wínata ánč̓a x̣nítata ‘and we will go digging again’;

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[NP /-ten/.]

Definition:

Want, wish to do something.

Function:

Desiderative. Attach to verbs. Modern speakers of Umatilla usually use -t̓at̓a

Examples:

1. As -t̓a:
   1. čúut̓a ‘be thirsty’;
   2. tkʷátat̓a ‘want to eat’;
   3. wɨšát̓a ‘want to lie down’;
   4. -pát̓a ‘desire, crave’. As -at̓a: ík̓aywakat̓a ‘want to outdo’;
   5. wáyčat̓a ‘go look for’;
   6. wɨ́npat̓a ‘want to cross’;
   7. wɨšáyčat̓a ‘want to stay’. With stem final n deleted: łúukat̓a ‘need to urinate’;
   8. q̓ínwat̓a ‘want to see’;
   9. šúkʷayat̓a ‘want to learn’;
   10. tíitat̓a ‘want to flatulate’;
   11. wɨx̣íyat̓a ‘want to lie down’.
   12. ku kʷyáam pašúkʷayat̓aša sɨ́nwit naamí ‘and truly they went to learn our language’;
   13. ku kʷaaná panáktux̣ʷat̓ašamš ‘and they want to bring that back’;
   14. pápaˀik̓aywakat̓ana ‘they wanted to outdo each other’;
   15. ku kʷná pawámšita ana šíman kʷná pawšáyčat̓ata ‘and whoever will want to stay there will buy on credit’;
2. As -tat̓a:
   1. anítat̓a ‘want to make’;
   2. wínatat̓a ‘want to go’;
   3. x̣nítat̓a ‘want to dig’.
   4. ataš tún anítat̓aša ‘anything that we want to make’;
   5. ana kʷná patáˀanitat̓aša níit ‘where they are wanting to build the house’;
   6. ana túntya áw paˀanítat̓ax̣ana ‘whatever now they would want to make’;
   7. ana kʷɨ́nki paˀanítat̓aša tún ‘with that which they are wanting to make something’.
   8. paˀiƛ̓iyawitát̓ana kʷɨ́nik̓a ‘they wanted to kill them next on that side’;

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[NP /-ˀpécwi/; cf. NP prospective /-tet̓e/ ‘be about to’.]

Definition:

At, on, in a place or a thing.

Function:

Locative case. Attach to nouns.

Examples:

1. ƛ̓áax̣ʷpa iwačá čúuš ɨščɨ́tpa ‘the water was on all the roads’;
2. watx̣ɨ́n pawačá imaamípa ‘were they at your place?’;
3. ittáwax̣na Ímatalampa ‘she grew up at Umatilla’;
4. ačanam kú ttáwax̣na nč̓ípa ataymat̓áwaspa ‘because he grew up in the big city’;
5. ƛ̓áax̣ʷpa iwačá čúuš ɨščɨ́tpa ‘the water was on all the roads’;
6. náx̣š waníčt ipáyšta náx̣špa kʷná páx̣ałk̓ʷipa ‘a name will come out on that one Friday’;
7. ača kú iwačá naknúwiyi šuyapumaamípa ‘because he was taken care of among the white people’;
8. páwawšpa łamtɨ́x̣pa ‘he hit him on the head’;
9. páwawyana pɨnmipáyn łamtɨ́x̣pa ‘he beat him on his head’;
10. wínax̣anaaš náptipa nɨknípa ‘I used to go at two o’clock’;
11. mɨ́łpan iwá nɨknípa ‘what time is it?’;
12. k̓úycipa nɨknípa ‘nine o’clock’;
13. čná tiičámpa ‘in this land’;
14. yáƛ̓pitpa tiičámpa ‘in the wetlands’;
15. páx̣atipa wáwtuktpa ‘on the fifth day’;
16. tímašpa ‘on paper’;
17. tkʷátatpa ‘in the food’;
18. skúulpa ‘at school’;
19. ayáyat q̓ínupa ‘beautiful in appearance’;
20. níix̣ q̓ínupa ‘good looking’;
21. inmípa wiyáx̣ayx̣tpa ‘in my daily living’;
22. imaamipáyn tɨmnápa ‘in your hearts’;
23. ánɨmpa ‘in winter’;
24. wášani k̓úsipa ‘ridden on the horse, on horseback’.
25. With nominalized verbs:
    1. ataš kú wiyákʷštikɨnx̣ana túpan łq̓íwitpa ‘when we used to do wrong in some playing’;
    2. k̓ʷíya iwá páyu núkšitpa ‘valarian smells awful’;
    3. at̓úk iwá x̣nítpa kápɨnki ‘it is hard to dig with the digging stick’;
    4. ƛ̓áax̣ʷ iwáta ayáyat q̓ínupa ‘all will be beautiful to see’.

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[NP /-pe/; probably a grammaticalized extension of PS *pe ‘be situated’.]