náx̣ašwi

Ask to go; challenge. Implies not a threat but persistence. náx̣ašwišamaš ‘I beg you’; pánax̣ašwiya áwna wínaša ‘he begged him to go along’; náx̣ašwišamaš umíštyanam míta ‘I’m asking you to go along, or do you have something else to do?’; Spilyáy ináx̣ašwiya pawilawíix̣tki ‘Coyote challenged [him] to a race’; ku ináx̣ašwiya pawilawíix̣tki wɨłq̓ámitki ‘and he asked [him] to go [compete] in a moccasin putting on race’. [NE náx̣išwi.]