17 terms start with “ˀ

-ˀál

Definition:

Month.


Function:

Attach to nouns.


Example:

xawit̓álxawit̓al ‘month approximating April’.


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-mi ‘month’

[NP /-ˀál/ ~ /-ˀáł/.]

-ˀaš

Function:

Purpose nominalizer.


Examples:

šwát̓aš ‘cloud’;

táp̓aš ‘pine’;

twalúut̓as ‘dipnet’.


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-aš

[NP /-ˀes/.]

-ˀát

Function:

Feminine agentive.


Example:

twataˀát ‘female Indian doctor’.


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[NP /-ˀato/ (a diminutive variant of NP /-ˀetu/).]

-ˀáwas

Function:

Instrument nominalizer.


Example:

kaƛ̓iyawit̓áwas ‘poison’.


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-áwas

[NE -ˀúus.]

-ˀiš

Function:

Attributive.


Example:

wáq̓iš ‘alive, awake’;

wíyat̓iš ‘for a long time’.


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[NP /-ˀis/ is more productive.]

-ˀuyi

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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úyi

[NP /-t̓uyi/ (/-t/ plus /-ˀuyi/).]

-a

Function:

Archaic directional. Forms verb.


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See -na.

-a

Vocative. túta ‘father!’; íła ‘mother!’; tɨ́ta ‘child!’. [NE -aˀ (senior vocative); -a (junior vocative); NP /-eˀ/ (senior vocative); /-e/ (junior vocative).]

-a

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/.]

-a

Function:

Past tense.


Examples:

  1. -a after a consonant
    1. tiyanpa k̓úsi ‘he took the horse away from him’
  2. -ya after i
    1. iwiyánawiya ‘he arrived’;
  3. -na after vowel
    1. x̣lakníin itkʷátana ‘he ate too much’.
  4. Can be used with progressive -ša aspect.
    1. ataš kú ttáwax̣šana kuš áq̓inunx̣ana ‘when we were growing up I used to see them’.

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[NP /-e/; cf. archaic indicative -a.]

-a

Function:

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.

-aaš

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/.]

-i

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 ; NP /-iˀins/.]

-i

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’.]

-i

Ablative case. čɨ́ni ‘from this, from here’; kʷɨ́ni ‘from that, from there’; mɨ́ni ‘from where? whence?’. See also -kni. [N -ik; NP /-ik/.]

-i

Function:

Imperative. Only in WS imperative plural.


Function:

Forms verb.


Example:

  1. wínamti ‘y’all come!’.

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-k. [NP imperative /-i/ (only after vowel stems); Klamath imperative singular -i.]

-i

Function:

Verbalizer. Forms verb.


Examples:

  1. ámani ‘marry’ (of a woman);
  2. ˀawtaši ‘wound with an arrow (or bullet)’;
  3. čáksksi ‘make small’;
  4. čáynači ‘marry’ (of a man);
  5. čx̣áwi ‘be fat’;
  6. íkkmi ‘fill’;
  7. íkuuksɨmi ‘straighten out’;
  8. íniix̣i ‘fix’;
  9. íƛ̓ɨmx̣ʷi ‘cover’;
  10. kúuki ‘cook’;
  11. lák̓ʷšk̓ʷši ‘turn brown from roasting’;
  12. láqayx̣i ‘shine’;
  13. láx̣yawi ‘dry’;
  14. lax̣ʷayx̣łáyi ‘have the flu’;
  15. łáyłayi ‘have measles, pox’;
  16. páščti ‘mist, be misty’;
  17. sapátaawayi ‘freeze’;
  18. skúuli ‘go to school’;
  19. sulátasi ‘put on leggings’;
  20. šapáłkapi ‘have arthritis’;
  21. šátɨmi ‘be autumn’;
  22. tamc̓íc̓iti ‘hail’;
  23. táatpasi ‘put on like a shirt’;
  24. tilíwali ‘bleed’;
  25. tuní ‘strike a match’;
  26. t̓úx̣t̓ux̣i ‘rain’;
  27. wawáx̣ɨmi ‘be spring’;
  28. wɨłq̓ámi ‘put on moccasins’.
  29. Productive with borrowed words:
    1. *town*i ‘go to town’;
    2. *watch*i ‘watch’.

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[NP /-hi/.]