Fast, quick, quickly, readily, hurriedly. kɨ́tu ‘hurry up!’; kɨ́tu kúk ‘do it fast!’; kɨ́tu iwáyx̣tiya ‘he ran fast’; kɨ́tuna áwayčta ɨščɨ́tna ‘we have to cross the road quickly’; páyšnam čáw wɨłq̓ámita kɨ́tu mak̓ínam kú čná paˀíƛ̓iyawita ‘if you don’t hurridly get your moccasins on they will kill you here’; kʷɨ́nkita kú ku pɨnmíin áwinana háašt kɨ́tu ‘with that then her breath went quickly’; kɨ́tu wayx̣tiłá miyánaš ‘rapid runner baby = stonecrop, Sedum lanceolatum, S. oreganum‘. [NP /hámtiˀc/; cf. S x̣tú ‘strong’ & NP /qtu/ ‘more’.]
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