-k

Augment that occurs with various adverbial prefixes. A stem final n is never present before -k, and -k never occurs after p. čák̓uk ‘bundle’; čáwaanknik ‘put around’; ík̓uk ‘pile’; ínaamk ‘erase’; mɨškʷyámk ‘believe’; náyk̓uk ‘gather’; nákpayšk ‘appear with, bring back a name’; sápk̓uk ‘gather up’; suyátk ‘skewer fish or meat’; tamáquk ‘weigh down, hinder’; wáp̓ik ‘wash clothes’; wáasklik ‘go around’; wášiwatk ‘disagree, quarrel’; wátyasklik ‘dance around’; wiyánknik ‘go around’; wiyák̓uk ‘gather together’. A root final velar or uvular obstruent absorbs -k, and a root final labiovelar/ labiouvular is delabialized by -k: ílac̓ɨx ‘fry’; pátk̓ʷk ‘straighten’; šáx̣ƛ̓k ‘cut’; wáwp̓k ‘hatch’. Adjectives verbalized by -k with adverbial prefix: čák̓aywak ‘shorten’; čák̓ilak ‘bend’; čák̓ptk ‘ball up’; čáquuk ‘hold back, halt’; čáq̓ttk ‘make hard, harden’; íc̓ik ‘sweeten’; ímałak ‘clean up’; náknɨč̓ik ‘enlarge’; pác̓aak ‘add on’; twáluc̓ak ‘mark red’; wác̓aak ‘close, lock’; wáquuk ‘stake down’. In the following -k is clearly a transitivizer: pátuk ‘place, set’ (individuative object); ptúk ‘place, set dishes’ (distributive object). For intransitive equivalents see pátun ‘be situated’ (individuative inanimate subject); ptún ‘be situated’ (distributive inanimate subject). The palatalized variant -č, which see, occurs only in CR. [NP /-k/.]