Definition:
I.
Function:
Nominative singular.
Examples:
- wát̓is wiyáwat̓wita ín ‘I will take the lead’;
- ínmaš wiláalakʷa ‘I left you’;
- áwnaš ín pináwšuwaša ‘now I am getting myself ready’;
- kúušnaš áw ín wáta ‘thusly now I shall be’ (said when the myth characters answered to the law);
- aš kú ín ttáwax̣šana kuš čáw mún wínax̣ana wánptyaw ‘when I was growing up I never would go to the medicine singing’;
- k̓ʷáyšta kʷaaná kúuš átwanaša ín ‘in that way I am following that one’;
- k̓ʷáyš kʷɨ́ł ín šúkʷaša ‘that much I know’ (said at the end of speeches);
- ínaš waníša Twáway tanánki ‘I am named Twáway in Indian’;
- wačáaš ín amaš ín q̓ínušana ‘it was I who saw you’;
- k̓ʷáyš wɨ́npta ín ‘I will get that’; áwnaš ínč̓a wɨ́npta tanán waníčt ‘now I also will receive an Indian name’;
- čáwš ínč̓a šúkaša ‘I don’t know either’;
- watx̣ɨ́naš ínč̓a wínata ‘may I go too?’;
See more:
=naš ‘I, me, mine, my’ (second position pronoun);
ína / ináy ‘I’ (accusative singular);
ilksá ‘I alone’;
ínsɨm ‘I only’;
ínx̣i ‘I similarly’;
ínx̣uš ‘I first’.
[WS íni; NW ínk; NP /ˀín/; Klamath ni.]