-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/).]