-č

Function:

Forms verb

Examples:

  1. Palatalized variant of stem marker -k (which see).
    1. íłamayč ‘hide’;
    2. nákłamayč ‘misguide, lead astray’;
    3. páƛ̓ič ‘kill with the hand’;
    4. šapálk̓ʷič ‘cover up, bury’;
    5. šapáq̓ič ‘attach, tape, hang up’;
    6. šáq̓tč ‘plough’;
    7. tákʷtč ‘pull weeds, pick flowers’;
    8. tamáq̓ič ‘hang up’;
    9. támq̓ič ‘hang things over a pole’;
    10. tunáqʷtč ‘step on sharp object’;
    11. tunáƛ̓ič ‘step on and kill’;
    12. tútaƛ̓ič ‘kill by butting with the head’;
    13. waníč ‘name’;
    14. wáaq̓ič ‘get caught’;
    15. wáƛ̓ič ‘club to death’;
    16. wax̣íč ‘lay out’;
    17. wiláwɨx̣ič ‘blow down’;
    18. wiyáłamayč ‘be lost on the way’;
    19. yálk̓ʷič ‘cover with water, flood’;
    20. tɨx̣nɨmk̓icáwas ‘stirrup’.
  2. A stem final č mutates to t before š:
    1. iwáyča ‘he crossed’;
    2. iwáytša ‘he is crossing’.

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[N -k; NP /-k/.]