Definition:
Month.
Function:
Attach to nouns.
Example:
xawit̓álxawit̓al ‘month approximating April’.
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-mi ‘month’
[NP /-ˀál/ ~ /-ˀáł/.]
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Definition:
Month.
Function:
Attach to nouns.
Example:
xawit̓álxawit̓al ‘month approximating April’.
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-mi ‘month’
[NP /-ˀál/ ~ /-ˀáł/.]
Function:
Purpose nominalizer.
Examples:
šwát̓aš ‘cloud’;
táp̓aš ‘pine’;
twalúut̓as ‘dipnet’.
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[NP /-ˀes/.]
Function:
Feminine agentive.
Example:
twataˀát ‘female Indian doctor’.
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[NP /-ˀato/ (a diminutive variant of NP /-ˀetu/).]
Definition:
Begin, start.
Function:
Forms verb from nominalized with -t (mostly the [ˀ] of -ˀuyi does not cause glottalization of the nominalizer).
Example:
tkʷátatˀuyi ‘start to eat’;
tkʷáynptˀuyi ‘go on first hunt’;
tk̓ʷanáytitˀuyi ‘begin to walk’;
tɨ́x̣ˀuyi ‘make the first kill’;
wánatˀuyi ‘start to flow’;
wánptˀuyi ‘begin to medicine sing’;
wáyx̣titˀuyi ‘start to run’;
wát̓uyi ‘go ahead’.
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[NP /-t̓uyi/ (/-t/ plus /-ˀuyi/).]
Function:
Archaic directional. Forms verb.
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See -na.
Vocative. túta ‘father!’; íła ‘mother!’; tɨ́ta ‘child!’. [NE -aˀ (senior vocative); -a (junior vocative); NP /-eˀ/ (senior vocative); /-e/ (junior vocative).]
Function:
Archaic indicative frozen in various suffixes. Forms verb.
Examples:
-aša ‘on, upon’;
-ata ‘go for a purpose’;
-awa (directive);
-ayi (applicative);
-ničanwi ‘down’;
-ničapa ‘in or into brush’;
-ničaša ‘on, upon’;
níyawštayma ‘reciprocate with money to one who is receiving a name and from whom a gift has been received’.
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[NP /-e/.]
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Present perfect.
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NW Sahaptin. Suffixes to in and un verbs (Umatilla simply lengthens the in and un in the present perfect). See Table 18.
Source, place, tree, bush, patch, source for berries. ililmúkaaš ‘dwarf huckleberry bush’; kkúušaaš ‘hazelnut tree’; mɨt̓ɨ́paaš ‘elderberry tree’; níitaaš ‘house site’; pínušaš ‘gooseberry bush’; sáxataaš ‘raspberry bush’; wiwnúwaaš ‘huckleberry bush’. See also -aašu, -šway. [NP /-nwees/.]
Function:
Past participle. Forms adjectives from nouns and verbs.
Examples:
ataš kúuš wačá náma sápsik̓ʷani ‘such as we were taught’;
ku áwača wátisas aníyi kakyanmí p̓ip̓inmí ‘and his rope was made of animal intestine’;
tílaaki níyi iwačá miyuux̣míyaw ‘a woman was given to the chief’;
čáw mɨná iwačá aníyi tamicáwas ‘nowhere was there a cemetery made’;
áwata aníyi wilawiix̣tpamá ‘their racetrack will be made’;
ku iwá pčɨ́š wíwac̓aaki ‘and each door/gate is locked’;
wáx̣ɨmki iwá ɨst̓swáakuł ‘the corn is ground’;
níči iwá ‘he is put away (buried)’;
wɨ́npi iwá ‘he is arrested’;
lɨ́mq̓ini iwačá ‘he had his eyes closed’;
tmíyuni iwá ‘it is decided’;
šq̓múni iwá ‘it is wrinkled’;
wátana pamáwšuwani ‘we will be readied’;
ɨsɨ́xʷi ‘female salmon, female fish’;
áwtaši ‘wounded’;
áwtni ‘tabooed’;
čáwiwani ‘stretched’;
ílax̣ʷayx̣i ‘heated up’;
pánaymuni ‘related to one another’;
sapác̓ɨmki ‘sharpened’;
sapák̓stni ‘cooled down’;
sapasunaytí ‘wheel barrow’;
táax̣aluuni calutimat̓áwas ‘dyed cornhusk’;
wák̓ɨlki nɨkʷɨ́t ‘hamburger’;
walák̓iki łkmá ‘the stick-game bone with the mark’;
waníči ‘named’;
wánpi ‘sung (one who has sung the medicine song)’;
wášani ‘ridden’;
wáašani ‘adherent of the dreamer religion’;
xawíyi ‘mature, ripened’. With nouns: čáwx̣inam wá wɨłq̓ámi ‘you are not similarly shod’;
tamámi ‘cake’;
pátasi ‘quail’;
púuši ‘having juniper, worthless land’.
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After vowel: –ní
[NE -í; NP /-iˀins/.]
Adjunct that occurs only in the CR dialects. Occurs after a (where it is orthographically -y) in Umatilla: pmáy ‘they’; k̓ʷáy ‘that’; naamanáy ‘us’; imanáy ‘you (acc.)’; paanáy ‘him/her/it’; piinamanáy ‘them two’; etc. Also occurs in WS after nominative personal pronouns: íni ‘I’; ími ‘you’; pɨ́ni ‘he/she/ it’; náamay ‘we’; etc. The N dialects variously have instead -k, thus NW: ínk ‘I’; ímk ‘you’; pɨ́nk ‘he/she/it’; namák ‘we’; etc. [Cf. NP /-i/ in /ˀipí/ ‘he, she, it’; Klamath i in ni ‘I’; mi ‘yours’; bi ‘he, she, it’.]
Ablative case. čɨ́ni ‘from this, from here’; kʷɨ́ni ‘from that, from there’; mɨ́ni ‘from where? whence?’. See also -kni. [N -ik; NP /-ik/.]
Function:
Imperative. Only in WS imperative plural.
Function:
Forms verb.
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-k. [NP imperative /-i/ (only after vowel stems); Klamath imperative singular -i.]
Function:
Verbalizer. Forms verb.
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[NP /-hi/.]