áya

Scratch, scratch an itch; spawn (of salmon). mɨcc̓ɨ́pšaaš kuš pináˀayaša ‘I am itching and I’m scratching myself’; áwayanayišaaš k̓úpas ‘I’m scratching his back’; áyayim k̓úpas ‘scratch my back!’; áyaša núsux ‘the salmon are spawning’. [NP /háy̓a/ ‘scratch’; /héy̓e/ ‘spawn’.]