-awa

Function:

Directive.

Function:

Forms verb. Directly attach to n verbs without taking -n away.

Examples:

  1. -awa after consonant:
    1. ášawašaykšmaš ‘I’m going on in to you (said when entering the sweathouse)’;
    2. paˀátawaša paamanáy ‘they are going out to them’;
    3. kunamta ičáx̣ɨlpawamta anam kú čɨ́ni iwínata náx̣šyaw hawláakyaw tiičámyaw ‘and he will open it to you when you go from here to a spirit land’;
    4. ič̓ɨ́škawanaaš ‘he lied to me’;
    5. ana k̓ʷapɨ́n ináčičawaša ƛ̓áax̣ʷ ‘all the aforementioned that he brought to us’;
    6. k̓ʷáynaš kúuš itɨmnanáx̣nawax̣ana inmínɨm káłanɨm ‘my grandmother used to tell me stories like that’;
    7. kunam patq̓íx̣nawata ‘and they will want you’;
  2. -nawa after vowel
    1. k̓ʷałanáwašamaš ‘I am pleased with you’;
    2. kunata kʷaaná ák̓ʷałanawax̣a ‘and we are glad for that’;
    3. aš kúuš pináˀititamanawašana ‘like I was reading to myself’;
    4. kutaš iwínanawaša šuyápunɨm ‘and the whiteman is going to us’;
  3. -yawa after i
    1. wiyánawiyawašamaš šápniyanat ‘I am coming to ask you’;
    2. pápawiyanawiyawax̣ana ‘they used to visit one another’;
    3. wáawiyanawiyawamtk ‘come stop in for a while!’;
    4. alyáwa ‘wager in stick-game’.

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[NE -uun; NW -úun; NP /-úu/; probably from indicative -e plus we ‘be’.]