Function:
Verbalizer. Forms verb.
Examples:
- ámani ‘marry’ (of a woman);
- táˀawtaši ‘wound with an arrow (or bullet)’;
- čáksksi ‘make small’;
- čáynači ‘marry’ (of a man);
- čx̣áwi ‘be fat’;
- íkkmi ‘fill’;
- íkuuksɨmi ‘straighten out’;
- íniix̣i ‘fix’;
- íƛ̓ɨmx̣ʷi ‘cover’;
- kúuki ‘cook’;
- lák̓ʷšk̓ʷši ‘turn brown from roasting’;
- láqayx̣i ‘shine’;
- láx̣yawi ‘dry’;
- lax̣ʷayx̣łáyi ‘have the flu’;
- łáyłayi ‘have measles, pox’;
- páščti ‘mist, be misty’;
- sapátaawayi ‘freeze’;
- skúuli ‘go to school’;
- sulátasi ‘put on leggings’;
- šapáłkapi ‘have arthritis’;
- šátɨmi ‘be autumn’;
- tamc̓íc̓iti ‘hail’;
- táatpasi ‘put on like a shirt’;
- tilíwali ‘bleed’;
- tuní ‘strike a match’;
- t̓úx̣t̓ux̣i ‘rain’;
- wawáx̣ɨmi ‘be spring’;
- wɨłq̓ámi ‘put on moccasins’.
- Productive with borrowed words:
- *town*i ‘go to town’;
- *watch*i ‘watch’.
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[NP /-hi/.]