míimi

Long ago; already. kúus iwačá míimi ‘it was like that long ago’; k̓ʷáy iwačá sápsik̓ʷat míimi ‘that was the teaching long ago’; čáw mún kúuš pawačá míimi ‘they never were like that long ago’; k̓ʷáy iwačá kúuš áwtni míimi ‘that was tabooed that way long ago’; k̓ʷáy iwá sápsik̓ʷat míimikni ‘that is the teaching from long ago’; áw míimikni iwačá ‘now it was from long ago’; míimi iƛúpɨn ‘he has already jumped’; míimi pašúkʷaša ‘they already know’; kʷnáx̣išta kú sɨ́nwisana míimi ‘in the same place then I was speaking already’; míimiš tkʷátašana ‘I was already eating’; míimiš wá tkʷátani ‘I’ve already eaten’; míimiš kánaq̓iya ‘I had already finished eating’; míiminaš átaymuna yašáp ‘I already told your elder brother the news’; ku míimi paˀɨ́nta nč̓ínč̓ima ‘and already the elders will say…’. [Y also míiwi; NP /waqípa/ ‘long ago’; /wáqoˀ/ ‘already’.]