-aš

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