čikúuk

Today. čikúuksim iwá ku čáwk̓a iwá watím ‘it is only today and yesterday is gone’; aš kú áq̓inuša miyánašmaaman čikúuk ‘when I see the children today’; kúuš iwačá míimi ku čikúuk čáw kúuš iwá ‘it was like that long ago and today it is not that way’; ku čikúuk panákwinax̣a miyánaš wánptyaw ‘and today [contrary to the past] they take their children to the medicine singing’. [NW íči íkuuk; NP /táqc/; čikúuk is from čí ‘this’ plus kúuk ‘then’.]