ká-

Definition:

With the teeth, mouth, in eating. Attach to the beginning of verbs.


Examples:

  1. káˀilawi ‘taste’;
  2. ˀuyi ‘eat first, observe the firstfruits’;
  3. kánaq̓i ‘finish eating’;
  4. káanwi ‘eat up, devour’;
  5. kášk̓ululapn ‘eat too much fat’;
  6. ƛ̓in ‘spit’;
  7. ƛ̓iyawi ‘kill with food, poison’;
  8. ƛ̓x̣ʷ ‘eat up, devour’;
  9. káwaaluuk ‘pick up with the mouth’.

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Nonpalatalized variant of čá-.

[NP /ké-/.]