áčaš

Eye. áčaš ilɨ́mq̓iša pt̓ínits ‘the girl is closing her eyes’; spilyaynmí áčaš ‘buttercup, Ranunculus occidentalis; contact lenses’; šušaynšmí áčaš ~ nusuxmí áčaš ‘Munro’s or whitestem globemallow (Sphaeralcea munroana)’; kaluxmí áčaš ‘evening-primrose (Oenothera pallida)’. [Y áčaaš; NP /slu/; áčaš is probably PS *hék ‘see’ (cf. NP /hekn/ ‘see’) plus purpose nominalizer *-eš; cf. NP hekín̓es (/hekn-ˀes/) ‘in order to see, for seeing’.]