patá-

Function:

Pragmatic inverse

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Examples:

1. with plural subject: ‘they’ acting on a topical ‘him/ her/it/them’.
   1. ku kʷná patáq̓inuna ‘and there they saw him’;
   2. ku kʷaaná patákutkutɨnx̣a ‘and they work that one’;
   3. patáˀaniyayiya ‘they made it for him’;
   4. ana kú iwá čɨ́mti wánpi ku kʷaaná patákutkutɨnx̣a ‘when there is a new one sung then they work that’;
   5. patáˀisp̓iša ‘they’re covering them up’;
   6. ana k̓ʷapɨ́n patáničayiya ‘the aforementioned which they put away for them’;
   7. patášapattawax̣ɨnx̣a ‘they raise them’;
   8. ku kʷaaná patásamx̣nax̣ana ‘and that one they used to advise’;
   9. ana kʷaaná patáˀɨnx̣ana ‘that one to whom they used to say’;
   10. patáx̣nix̣a ‘they dig that’.

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[NE paˀá-; NW 2nd position =pat ‘they’ plus obviative á-.]