Agentive nominalizer with negative connotations. Stress is attracted to the preceding syllable. iƛ̓iyawíłam ‘murderer’; pak̓ʷiyawíłam ‘quarrelsome one’; pax̣ʷíłam ‘thief’; sɨmq̓íłam ‘peeping tom’; tiwíłam ‘bully, abuser’.
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