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Agentive nominalizer. aniłá ‘maker’; paykłá ‘obedient’; waasklikłá ‘wheel’; lax̣ʷayx̣łá ‘one who gets overheated’; sapsik̓ʷałá ‘teacher’; šax̣aapłá ‘sawyer, millwright’; wapaatałá ‘helper’; naknuwiłá ‘keeper, care taker’; uyiłá ‘beginner’; wanpłá ‘medicine singer’; wapaanłá ‘grizzly bear’; wawyałá ‘whipman’; tamaˀuyiłá ‘lead off person (stick-game, baseball, etc.)’; pstxłá ‘blacksmith’; waasklikłá ‘wheel’; wawc̓aakłá k̓úsimaaman ‘horse shoer’; tkʷaynpłáma ‘hunters’; x̣niłáma ‘root diggers’. Also suffixes to nouns in Columbia River: Imatalamłá ‘Umatilla person’; Hawtmiłáma ‘McKay Creek people’. [NP /-ew̓et(u)/.]