-k

Function:

Augment that occurs with various adverbial prefixes.

A stem final n is never present before -k, and -k never occurs after p.

Forms verbs. new info

  1. čák̓uk ‘bundle’
  2. čáwaanknik ‘put around’
  3. ík̓uk ‘pile’
  4. ínaamk ‘erase’
  5. mɨškʷyámk ‘believe’
  6. náyk̓uk ‘gather’
  7. nákpayšk ‘appear with, bring back a name’
  8. sápk̓uk ‘gather up’
  9. suyátk ‘skewer fish or meat’
  10. tamáquk ‘weigh down, hinder’
  11. wáp̓ik ‘wash clothes’
  12. wáasklik ‘go around’
  13. wášiwatk ‘disagree, quarrel’
  14. wátyasklik ‘dance around’
  15. wiyánknik ‘go around’
  16. wiyák̓uk ‘gather together’.
  17. A root final velar or uvular obstruent absorbs -k, and a root final labiovelar/ labiouvular is delabialized by -k:
    1. ílac̓ɨx ‘fry’
    2. pátk̓ʷk ‘straighten’
    3. šáx̣ƛ̓k ‘cut’
    4. wáwp̓k ‘hatch’.
  18. Adjectives verbalized by -k with adverbial prefix:
    1. čák̓aywak ‘shorten’
    2. čák̓ilak ‘bend’
    3. čák̓ptk ‘ball up’
    4. čáquuk ‘hold back, halt’
    5. čáq̓ttk ‘make hard, harden’
    6. íc̓ik ‘sweeten’
    7. ímałak ‘clean up’
    8. náknɨč̓ik ‘enlarge’
    9. pác̓aak ‘add on’
    10. twáluc̓ak ‘mark red’
    11. wác̓aak ‘close, lock’
    12. wáquuk ‘stake down’.
  19. In the following -k is clearly a transitivizer:
    1. pátuk ‘place, set’ (individuative object)
    2. ptúk ‘place, set dishes’ (distributive object).
  20. For intransitive equivalents see:
    1. pátun ‘be situated’ (individuative inanimate subject)
    2. ptún ‘be situated’ (distributive inanimate subject).

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The palatalized variant -č, which see, occurs only in CR.

[NP /-k/.]