aní

Definition:

To make, build, construct, prepare, employ.

Examples:

  1. ku paˀaníx̣ana ánɨmay tkʷátat ‘and they used to prepare food for winter’;
  2. ana kú paˀaníya tamánwit ‘when they made the law’;
  3. šuyápu ƛ̓áax̣ʷ iwíˀaniya níit níix̣pa tiičámpa ‘the whiteman built all his houses on the good land’;
  4. ku patáˀaniya x̣ɨ́tway ‘and they made him a friend’;
  5. ku kʷná aw kú kʷiiní wínšín wiyánč̓íin páˀaniya tílaaki kʷaaná kskɨ́sna pt̓íisaan ‘and there then that officer made that small girl his wife’;
  6. iwíˀaniša k̓pɨ́tki ‘she is beading’;
  7. ana túntya áw paˀanítat̓ax̣ana ku paˀanítax̣ana taxʷɨ́s ‘whatever then that they would want to make they would go make dogbane instead’;
  8. patq̓íx̣šaataš sápsik̓ʷat wɨłq̓ám anít ‘they want to teach us moccasin making’;
  9. kuna aníta sapsik̓ʷałáaman kútkut ‘and we will employ teachers’;
  10. kuna aníta nawnɨmx̣łáaman kútkut ‘and we will employ mechanics’;
  11. With applicative (aníyayi ‘make for; blame, suspect’):
    1. kuna áwaniyayita níix̣ níit kʷaaná wínšna ‘and we will build a good house for that man’;
    2. ana k̓ʷapɨ́n aníyayiya płɨ́x̣ ‘the aforementioned medicine which he made for us’;
    3. áw patáˀaniyayix̣a ɨščɨ́t ‘now they make the road for him’;
    4. kúušna miyánašmaaman áwaniyayita ‘we will make it thusly for the children’;
    5. patáˀaniyayiya ‘they blamed him’.

See more:

k̓pɨ́tki anít ‘beadwork’;

wáswaski wíˀanit ‘cat’s cradle’;

wɨsláˀani ‘carve’;

alyáwa ‘wager in stick-game’;

aniłá ‘the Creator, God’.

[NP /hani/.]