kskɨ́s

Small, little, young. Singular, individuative. iwá náx̣š kskɨ́s ‘it’s a small one’; čí iwá kskɨ́s wána ‘this is a little river’; kúušx̣i yipɨ́x̣šikan iwá kskɨ́s níit ‘similarly downstream there is a little house’; iƛúpwaawayčɨnx̣ana t̓at̓ałíya kskɨ́sna wánana ‘the ogress would jump across the little ditch’; aš k̓ʷapɨ́n nákttawax̣šamš kskɨ́skni ‘that with which I grew up from childhood’; kskɨ́s áswan ‘little boy’; kskɨ́s músmuscɨn ‘little calf’; ataakskɨ́s ‘extra small’; tamawɨ́n kskɨ́s ‘too small’; čáksksi ‘make small’. For plural see kkɨ́s. [NE waptáy; NW iksíks; NP /kʷ´ckʷc(e)/.]