-a

Function:

Archaic indicative frozen in various suffixes. Forms verb.


Examples:

-aša ‘on, upon’;

-ata ‘go for a purpose’;

-awa (directive);

-ayi (applicative);

-ničanwi ‘down’;

-ničapa ‘in or into brush’;

-ničaša ‘on, upon’;

níyawštayma ‘reciprocate with money to one who is receiving a name and from whom a gift has been received’.


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[NP /-e/.]