Girl. Sometimes reduces to pt̓íits. ana kú ix̣nɨ́mˀuyix̣a pt̓ínic ku kúuk iwapáwx̣inx̣a pɨnmíin kápɨn ku wápas ku x̣nít ku ana tún itáatpasišana ku ƛ̓áax̣ʷ iwapáwx̣inx̣a ‘when the girl first digs then she gives away her digging stick and bag and roots and whatever she was wearing and all she gives away’; wačáš kskɨ́s pt̓íits ‘I was a small girl’; ku patáwɨnpa kʷaaná pt̓íisaan ‘and they got that girl’; tmáy iwá pt̓ínits ‘the girl is a young woman’; pt̓ilíma ‘girls’; pt̓ilíyin ‘two girls’; pt̓ínits k̓usik̓úsi ‘female dog’. [NE túux̣anat (plural: ápt̓ilima); NW pt̓íniks (plural: pt̓ilíma); NP /pt̓ín̓/, /pt̓íni-/ (plural /pp´t̓in̓/, /pp´t̓i-/).]
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