Function:

Co-occurs with na. Attach to nouns

Examples:

1. natútas ‘my father’;
2. naˀíłas ‘my mother’.

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[Probably related to the 2nd position pronominal =naš / =aš / =š ‘I, me, mine, my’.]

Function:

Purpose nominalizer. Forms nouns.

Examples:

1. ílukas ‘firewood’;
2. q̓ɨ́mkas ‘shoulder’;
3. núq̓ʷaš ‘throat’;
4. sapxʷɨ́lkas ‘ring’;
5. táwaxicas ‘stick in stick game’;
6. twánpaš ‘comb’;
7. wánpaš ‘medicine song’;
8. wáƛ̓ikas ‘small stick used to hit the pole in stickgame songs’;
9. wiyálpas ‘bullet’. Where productive -aš suffixes to the nominalizer -t: núsux ituníšana tananmaamí tkʷátataš ‘salmon went upriver for the people to eat’;
10. patq̓íx̣šanaaš walptáyktaš ‘they wanted me to sing’;
11. walápaq̓ičtnɨmnaš išapáwiyanawiša naknúwiyayitaš miyánašma ‘the president is sending me to take care of his children’;
12. ililmúk patmaaníx̣ana šapátwataš wíwnuna ‘they used to pick blueberries to mix with huckleberries’;
13. ɨ́mčayaƛ̓piša nɨkáštktna čáx̣ʷłktaš ‘he wet the knot with his mouth in order to untie it’;
14. ku pátq̓ix̣na paamanáy naknúwitaš čaaná tiičámna ‘and he wanted them to take care of this land’;
15. čáw máan wínataš ‘nowhere to go’.

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[Y -aaš; NP /-ˀes/.]