Function:
Past participle. Forms adjectives from nouns and verbs.
Examples:
- With verbs
- -i after consonant
- waníči ‘named’;
- wánpi ‘sung (one who has sung the medicine song)’;
- tamámi ‘cake’;
- pátasi ‘quail’;
- púuši ‘having juniper, worthless land’.
- áwtni ‘tabooed’;
- ílax̣ʷayx̣i ‘heated up’;
- pánaymuni ‘related to one another’;
- sapác̓ɨmki ‘sharpened’;
- sapák̓stni ‘cooled down’;
- sapasunaytí ‘wheel barrow’;
- níči iwá ‘he is put away (buried)’
- wɨ́npi iwá ‘he is arrested’;
- wák̓ɨlki nɨkʷɨ́t ‘hamburger’;
- walák̓iki łkmá ‘the stick-game bone with the mark’;
- táax̣aluuni calutimat̓áwas ‘dyed cornhusk’;
- ɨsɨ́xʷi ‘female salmon, female fish’;
- áwtaši ‘wounded’;
- lɨ́mq̓ini iwačá ‘he had his eyes closed’;
- tmíyuni iwá ‘it is decided’;
- šq̓múni iwá ‘it is wrinkled’;
- ku iwá pčɨ́š wíwac̓aaki ‘and each door/gate is locked’;
- wáx̣ɨmki iwá ɨst̓swáakuł ‘the corn is ground’
- -yi after i
- ku áwača wátisas aníyi kakyanmí p̓ip̓inmí ‘and his rope was made of animal intestine’;
- tílaaki níyi iwačá miyuux̣míyaw ‘a woman was given to the chief’;
- čáw mɨná iwačá aníyi tamicáwas ‘nowhere was there a cemetery made’;
- áwata aníyi wilawiix̣tpamá ‘their racetrack will be made’;
- xawíyi ‘mature, ripened’.
- –ní after vowel
- -i after consonant
- With nouns:
- čáwx̣inam wá wɨłq̓ámi ‘you are not similarly shod’;
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[NE -í; NP /-iˀins/.]