-i

Function:

Past participle. Forms adjectives from nouns and verbs.


Examples:

  1. With verbs
    1. -i after consonant
      1. waníči ‘named’;
      2. wánpi ‘sung (one who has sung the medicine song)’;
      3. tamámi ‘cake’;
      4. pátasi ‘quail’;
      5. púuši ‘having juniper, worthless land’.
      6. áwtni ‘tabooed’;
      7. ílax̣ʷayx̣i ‘heated up’;
      8. pánaymuni ‘related to one another’;
      9. sapác̓ɨmki ‘sharpened’;
      10. sapák̓stni ‘cooled down’;
      11. sapasunaytí ‘wheel barrow’;
      12. níči iwá ‘he is put away (buried)’
      13. wɨ́npi iwá ‘he is arrested’;
      14. wák̓ɨlki nɨkʷɨ́t ‘hamburger’;
      15. walák̓iki łkmá ‘the stick-game bone with the mark’;
      16. táax̣aluuni calutimat̓áwas ‘dyed cornhusk’;
      17. ɨsɨ́xʷi ‘female salmon, female fish’;
      18. áwtaši ‘wounded’;
      19. lɨ́mq̓ini iwačá ‘he had his eyes closed’;
      20. tmíyuni iwá ‘it is decided’;
      21. šq̓múni iwá ‘it is wrinkled’;
      22. ku iwá pčɨ́š wíwac̓aaki ‘and each door/gate is locked’;
      23. wáx̣ɨmki iwá ɨst̓swáakuł ‘the corn is ground’
    2. -yi after i
      1. ku áwača wátisas aníyi kakyanmí p̓ip̓inmí ‘and his rope was made of animal intestine’;
      2. tílaaki níyi iwačá miyuux̣míyaw ‘a woman was given to the chief’;
      3. čáw mɨná iwačá aníyi tamicáwas ‘nowhere was there a cemetery made’;
      4. áwata aníyi wilawiix̣tpamá ‘their racetrack will be made’;
      5. xawíyi ‘mature, ripened’.
    3. –ní after vowel
      1. čáwiwani ‘stretched’;
      2. wášani ‘ridden’;
      3. wáašani ‘adherent of the dreamer religion’;
      4. ataš kúuš wačá náma sápsik̓ʷani ‘such as we were taught’;
      5. wátana pamáwšuwani ‘we will be readied’;
  2. With nouns:
    1. čáwx̣inam wá wɨłq̓ámi ‘you are not similarly shod’;

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[NE ; NP /-iˀins/.]