-pa

Function:

Accusative case.

Inflects kinship terms when a 3rd person possessor is coreferential with subject.

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Examples:

1. tílaaki iq̓ínuna pšɨ́tpa ‘the woman saw her father’;
2. ku ɨ́nna káłapa ‘and he said to his grandmother’;
3. ku ɨ́nx̣ana x̣áypa ‘and he would say to his friend’;
4. pímx̣pa isík̓ʷatana ‘he went to show his uncle’.
5. Assimilates to stem final p:
   1. iq̓ínuša pyápa ‘he sees his older brother’;
   2. ɨsípa iq̓ínušana ‘she saw her little sister’.

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[Perhaps an extension of the locative -pa; cf. also ergative/accusative -áp.]