átaw

Valuable, important, treasured, desirable, lovely. ana tún iwačá míimi átaw qqaanáyt ‘whatever was the important work long ago’; ana tún áwa átaw paamíin tamicáwaspa ‘anything precious that they have in the cemetery’; amaš kúušx̣i wáta imíin tún kumaš wáta átaw ‘in the same way that you have something and it is valuable to you’; átawnaš wá tanwáytt ‘my valuables are important’; k̓ʷáyna wá naamí átaw tkʷátat ‘that is our valuable food’; ku míimi áwača níči patún atawˀátaw ‘and their important things were already put away’; wášnam átaw ‘you are special’. [NP /hetéˀew/.]