áwawi

Look for, seek. áwawišamaš ‘I am seeking you’ (Jacobs 1929:191:16); sáp̓awi ‘choose, separate out’; táp̓awi ‘look for with a torch’. Umatilla generally uses waqítn or šnáawi. [NE úuwi; Y áwi; NP /ˀpéw̓i/; probably S áwawi is a reduplication (*ˀew(i)-ˀewi) and NP /ˀpéw̓i/ contains /ˀpé-/ ‘with the hand’ (/ˀpéw̓i/