-láyk̓ay

Definition:

Specifically for someone or something.


Function:

Benefactive case. Emphatic. Attach to pronouns or determiners.


Examples:

  1. imiláyk̓aymaš wá ‘you have it for yourself’;
  2. imiláyk̓ay iwá tkʷátat ‘the food is for you’;
  3. paˀaníya paamiláyk̓ay ‘they made it for them/themselves’;
  4. tkʷátat iwačá inmiláyk̓ay ‘the food was for me’;
  5. imaamiláyk̓ay ‘for you all’;
  6. pɨnmiláyk̓ay ‘for him’;
  7. kʷnáyk̓ay ‘for that place’.

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[NW -k̓aláy.]