Definition:

1. Intransitive:
   1. We, you all, they, indivisually do something. ^{new info}
2. Transitive:
   1. Someone or some people do each of something. ^{new info}

Function:

Distributive. Attach to verbs. ^{new info}

Examples:

1. Intransitive:
   1. túman pawíwača ‘what kind of persons were they each?’;
   2. pawítawyašana ‘they were each living’;
   3. ana kúuk pawíyawaanaynaka ‘when they each drowned’;
   4. ana kʷná pawíwiyaninx̣ana ‘where they each would travel around’;
   5. čná pawítawyanaykɨnx̣ana ‘here they would each settle down to live’.
2. Transitive:
   1. máan pawíšapawinaša ‘where are they sending each?’;
   2. iwíˀaniša k̓pɨ́tki ‘she is beading’;
   3. kunam áwičač̓qta ‘and you will pull it apart in thin slices’;
   4. pawípax̣ʷišana tún ‘they are stealing each thing’;
   5. ana tún pawíˀaniša níit ‘each of whatever houses they are building’;
   6. ana kʷɨ́nki taxʷɨ́ski pawíˀanix̣ana ‘that dogbane with which they used to make each thing’;
   7. šuyápu ƛ̓áax̣ʷ iwíˀaniya níit níix̣pa tiičámpa ‘the whiteman built all his houses on the good land’;
   8. čáwpam čná tún wíkuta ‘you won’t do anything here’;
   9. míš pawímita ‘how will they do each [bad thing]?’;
   10. tkʷátatna wíwɨnpta ‘we should buy each of our foods’;
   11. čáwš áwišukayiša ƛ̓áax̣ʷ waníčt ‘I do not know each of all their names’;
   12. k̓ʷáyš kʷɨ́ł áwiwaničɨn ‘that much have I named each’;
   13. ku útpaski patáwitamaƛ̓mx̣ʷɨnx̣a ‘and they cover each with blankets’;
   14. kuna iwíniča maanmáan kutyana wá ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pánaymuni ‘and he placed each of us wherever but we are all related’;
   15. ku ƛ̓áax̣ʷ máan pawíšapawinayiša pípš ‘and wherever they are sending each of their bones’;
   16. čáwnam šína kúuš áwiwaničta ‘don’t call anybody those names’;
   17. ana kʷaamanáy pawíˀititamanayiša ‘each of theirs that they are studying’;
   18. kuna kúuk iwíniča ana máan ‘and then we buried each wherever’;
   19. ƛ̓áax̣ʷna pápawišuksa ƛ̓áax̣ʷ náymu ‘all we relatives recognize each other’.
3. In derivations:
   1. ana tuntún iwá x̣nít túnx̣ wíwaniči ‘things which are differently named roots’;
   2. tkʷátat ana k̓ʷapɨ́n pawá tunx̣túnx̣ wíwaniči ‘foods which are differently named’;
   3. čáwmataš wá túna imaamíin čná wíkutay ‘you don’t have anything to do here’;

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wíq̓ʷštiki ‘naked’;

wíx̣uwi ‘lace’;

wíyax̣ič ‘lay out, display’;

wíyax̣q̓ič ‘hang up (clothes, canvas, etc.)’;

wíwaničt ‘names’.

[NP /wí-/.]

Definition:

To be something, become something. ^{new info}

Function:

Verbalizer.

Examples:

1. ałwí ‘be generous’;
2. anmíwi ‘be winter’;
3. ayayášwi ‘act stupidly’;
4. cɨ́ˀliwi ‘be arrogant, proud’;
5. čáašwi ‘flirt’;
6. čáynačwi ‘trade on the men’s side’;
7. ččáanwi ‘not tell on, deny guilt’;
8. hananúywi ‘be disgusted with’;
9. ɨmačáywi ‘talk bad’;
10. ɨ́mttunwi ‘be talkative’;
11. kiˀíiswi ‘smile’;
12. lɨwáyswi ‘be lucky’;
13. lɨ́xssimwi ‘merge into one’;
14. łmamáwi ‘grow older’ (said of a woman);
15. łq̓íwi ‘play’;
16. mɨláwi ‘menstruate’;
17. níix̣wi ‘do well’;
18. pačíwi ‘be ornery’;
19. pačwáywi ‘be Sunday, keep Sunday’;
20. púułwi ‘be blind’;
21. q̓ʷšɨ́mwi ‘misbehave’;
22. Spilyáywi ‘copy, mimic’;
23. šatmíwi ‘become summer’;
24. špamíwi ‘become autumn’;
25. tamłamáywi ‘not know how’;
26. tɨmnanč̓íwi ‘tough it out, tolerate’;
27. twac̓ɨxíwi ‘be stingy’;
28. twatíwi ‘treat (the sick) as a shaman’;
29. t̓t̓ɨ́šwi ‘be frivolous and unproductive’;
30. wapčáywi ‘get violent’;
31. waq̓íšwi ‘revive’;
32. wawax̣míwi ‘become spring’;
33. wɨx̣áwi ‘wrestle’;
34. x̣antátwi ‘act up in sympathy with a pregnant woman’;
35. xʷsáatwi ‘grow older’ (said of a man).

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[NP /-wi/.]