-ata

Function:

Purposive. Forms verb.

Examples:

  1. patátamanikatata ‘they will go plant them’;
  2. ášapalulukatak ‘go nurse him!’;
  3. iq̓ínwatax̣amšnaš ‘she comes to see me’;
  4. amaš áwaaq̓inwatak ‘go have a look at them!’;
  5. kutaš ánč̓ax̣i x̣ʷyáyčatata ‘and we will go sweat again’;
  6. áw ánč̓wataša pšɨ́t ‘now his dad’s going to go to bed’;
  7. pinátisx̣p̓itkatak ‘go comb your hair!’
  8. ku pawínax̣ana patmaanítax̣ana tmɨ́šna ‘and they used to go to pick the chokecherry’;
  9. wɨ́npata ‘go get, fetch’.
  10. ačataš kú wínata x̣nɨ́mˀuyiyatata mɨtáłk̓ʷipa ‘because we will go do the first digging on Wednesday’;
  11. wáyx̣tix̣ana wɨ́npatax̣a aq̓uwitpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘we run to buy cough medicine’;
  12. kʷnáta kú patánakwinata xúlxulmaaman patátamanikatata ‘there then indeed they will haul the trout and plant them’.
  13. ášapaˀatayitak lúlukaš ‘go milk (the cow)!’;
  14. Reduces to -ta after a vowel:
    1. áwna łq̓íwitaša ‘let us go play’;
    2. čáwnam mún łq̓íwitata ana kʷná iwá tamicáwas ‘you should never go play where there is a cemetery’;
    3. paˀílax̣yawitax̣ana nɨkʷɨ́t kúušx̣i núsux kúušx̣i x̣nít ‘they used to go dry meat and salmon and roots’;
    4. paˀanítax̣ana Ímatalamyaw ‘they would go to Umatilla in order to make it’;
    5. patáwɨnpayitana tílaaki ‘they went to get him a wife’;
    6. ana pmáy pamáwšuwaša x̣nítatyaw ‘they who are getting themselves ready to go root digging’;
    7. tkʷáyta ‘throw, throw a spear’. Often occurs with a motion verb (such as wína ‘go’):
    8. wínašapam skúulitaša ‘you are going to school’;
    9. ku pawínax̣ana patmaanítax̣ana tmɨ́šna ‘and they would go pick the chokecherry’;
    10. wínanaataš x̣nítana ‘we went root digging’;
    11. kunam páyš wínata x̣nítata kʷaaní ‘and maybe you will go root digging in that direction’;
    12. kutaš wínata ánč̓a x̣nítata ‘and we will go digging again’;

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[NP /-ten/.]