Definition:
From, out of (from), off (from).
Functions:
Ablative case. Attach to nouns.
Examples:
- pawiyánawiya Ímatalamkni ‘they arrived from Umatilla’;
- pínapu pawačá inmíkni tilamíkni ‘there were four from my maternal grandfather’s side’;
- ača kú tmɨ́š iwiyáwat̓wix̣a ƛ̓áax̣ʷkni ana tún iwá tmaanít ‘because the chokecherry leads from all that is the fruit’;
- itináytšamš x̣ʷiyáytškni ‘he backed out of the sweathouse’;
- itiyánpa tílaaki miyuux̣míkni ‘he took the woman away from the chief’;
- kúuk ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pɨnmíin wáwnakʷšaš ápinawšuwanx̣a špámkni ánɨmiyaw ‘then all its body gets itself ready from autumn to winter’;
- ƛ̓áax̣ʷna wá pápanaymuni ana kúuš lɨ́xskni ttáwax̣tkni ‘we are all related to each other as from a single pedigree’;
- ičúuša wánakni ‘he is drinking out of the creek’;
- iƛúpwaaničanwiya pšwákni ‘he jumped off the rock’;
- k̓ʷáy iwá sápsik̓ʷat míimikni ‘that is the teaching from long ago’;
- inákpaaša luc̓áan mɨqɨ́škni ‘she is separating the red from the orange’;
- aw kú iwáynana x̣ʷayamá inmíkni ‘then the eagle flew from me’;
- x̣ʷayamá iwáynana naamíkni ‘the eagle flew away from us’;
- napiinamíkni iwáynana ‘he flew away from us two’;
- mɨ́taat x̣áyx̣ pačwáywitkni ‘three days from Sunday’;
- núšnukni tilíwal ‘nose bleed’.
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[N -knik; NP /-kn̓ik/; cf. Klamath -kni (Barker 1963b:188).]