=naš

I, me, mine, my. Reduces to =aš, =š. Subject: wínašaaš ‘I am going’; kúušnašta áwɨnx̣a inmímaaman miyánašmaaman ‘thusly I tell my children’; áq̓inušanaaš ‘I saw him’; čáwš šína áq̓inuun ‘I have not seen anyone’. Object: iq̓ínušanaaš ‘he saw me’; kúušnaš ɨ́nx̣ana inmínɨm nč̓ínɨm ‘my elder told me thusly’. Possessor: k̓úsinaš wá ‘it is my horse’; lúnaaš inmí níit ‘my house burnt up’; inmíš wačá káła ‘I had a grandmother’; kuš wá waníčt Inez ‘and my name is Inez’. [NP /-(e)k/.]