Definition:

To, go (to), into.

Function:

Allative case. Attach to nouns. -nmí is required before attaching to pronouns.

Examples:

1. wínašaaš nixyáwiyaw ‘I am going to Pendleton’;
2. čáwnaš wáyx̣tišana náx̣šyaw káˀuyityaw ‘I was not running to another feast’;
3. kuna wiyánawiša k̓ʷáalkyaw níityaw ‘and we are arriving at the long house’;
4. iyáx̣taša sayáykʷ tkʷsáyyaw ‘he is pouring sand into the pot’;
5. iwá pútɨmt k̓úycyaw nɨkníyaw ‘it is ten (minutes) to nine o’clock’;
6. níix̣ tiičám iwáta nawnɨmłáyaw ‘it will be a good place for the mechanic’;
7. átamaynačtanam tkʷátatna imiyawáy wáwnakʷšašyaw áwtnina ‘you will put the tabooed food into your body’;
8. iwiyánawiya tilaakinmíyaw ‘he arrived at the woman’s place’;
9. ku pawiyánawiya naamíyaw nč̓inč̓imaamíyaw ‘and they arrived at our elder’s’;
10. inmíyawx̣inam išapáwinama kałáp ‘your grandmother sent you to me’. As dative case: ašwaníyaan paníya miyuux̣míyaw ‘they gave a slave to the chief’;
11. pamániya sulcasmíyaw ‘they gave themselves for the army’;
12. wawyałanmíyawnaš pašapáwawyana ‘they had the whipman whip me’;
13. winšmíyaw patášapatkʷatana ‘they had the man “eat a person up”‘.
14. With nominalized verbs:
    1. iyíkna walptáyktyaw ‘he heard the singing’;
    2. k̓ʷáyš kʷɨ́ł áykɨnx̣ana inmímaaman nč̓ínč̓imaaman sɨ́nwityaw ‘that much I used to hear my elders speak’;
    3. átq̓ix̣šanaaš paanáy wínatyaw ‘I wanted him to go’;
    4. ana pmáy pamáwšuwaša x̣nítatyaw ‘they who are getting themselves ready to go root digging’.
15. Reduced to -w in the following:
    1. kutaš ánakwinana payuwitpamáw ‘and we took her to the hospital’.

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[NP /-(p)k/.]