7 terms start with “ˀ

Clause final interrogative enclitic. čná iwačáˀ ‘was he here?’.

-ˀaš

Purpose nominalizer. šwát̓aš ‘cloud’; táp̓aš ‘pine’; twalúut̓as ‘dipnet’. See -aš. [NP /-ˀes/.]

-ˀál

Month. xawit̓álxawit̓al ‘month approximating April’. See also -mi. [NP /-ˀál/ ~ /-ˀáł/.]

-ˀát

Feminine agentive. twataˀát ‘female Indian doctor’. [NP /-ˀato/ (a diminutive variant of NP /-ˀetu/).]

-ˀáwas

Instrument nominalizer. kaƛ̓iyawit̓áwas ‘poison’. See -áwas. [NE -ˀúus.]

-ˀiš

Attributive. wáq̓iš ‘alive, awake’; wíyat̓iš ‘for a long time’. [NP /-ˀis/ is more productive.]

-ˀuyi

Begin, start. Suffixes to verb nominalized with -t (mostly the [ˀ] of -ˀuyi does not cause glottalization of the nominalizer): 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’. See also úyi. [NP /-t̓uyi/ (/-t/ plus /-ˀuyi/).]