q̓šɨ́šn

Clench, hold on to, hang on to, grasp, hold in the hands. Sometimes reduced to q̓ɨ́šn. łkmá ik̓šɨ́šna ‘he got hold of the game bones’; iq̓šɨ́šna ílukasna ‘he held on to the stick’; q̓šɨ́ššamaš ‘I am holding on to you’; iq̓šɨ́šša łkmá ‘he is holding the stick-game bones’; iq̓ɨ́šša tímaš ‘he is holding the paper in his hands’; áq̓šɨššaaš tkʷsáyna ‘I am holding the cup’; iq̓šɨ́šnayišaaš apáp ‘she is holding my hand’; q̓šɨ́šni iwá timat̓áwas ‘the pencil is being held’; sapák̓ɨsk ‘catch (as a cat catches a mouse)’; šapáq̓šk ‘curl’; tamák̓sk ‘snatch’; yáq̓šk ‘shrink’; k̓skáwas ‘molar’; k̓ɨštɨ́n ‘tooth’; q̓ɨšpalí ‘buzzard’. Ablaut: Y q̓šíiš ‘clenched’. [Y q̓ɨ́šn ‘clench jaw’.]