páyš

Definition:

Maybe, perhaps, if.

Examples:

  1. páyš máysx iwáta níix̣ łk̓ʷí ‘maybe tomorrow will be a good day’;
  2. anata kú páyš súlcasnɨm išapáwinatax̣na máan ‘when perhaps the army would drive us away’;
  3. páyšnam čáw wɨłq̓ámita kɨ́tu mak̓ínam kú čná paˀíƛ̓iyawita ‘if you don’t hurridly get your moccasins on they will kill you here’;
  4. páyšnaš wínatax̣na kuš átux̣ʷnatax̣na ɨwínatna ‘if I had gone I would have shot the deer’;
  5. páyšnam ánakwinayita máan kunam patwánata ‘if you take theirs somewhere they will follow you’;
  6. páyšnaš watáx̣na páax̣amtpa kuš páax̣amtax̣na ‘had I been at the pow-wow I would have been dancing’;
  7. páyšnaš wínatax̣na ‘if only I had gone’.

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[NE páˀiš; NP páy̓s.]