Definition:
To be doing something. new info
Function:
Progressive aspect. Attach to the end of a verb and before tense or a pronominal suffix. new info
Examples:
- iwínašana ‘he was going’;
- iwínaša ‘he is going’;
- iwínašata ‘he will be going’. Used with stative verbs: iq̓ínuša ‘he sees’;
- išúkʷaša ‘he knows’.
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[NP /-sen/ (singular nominative); /-sik/, /-sin-/ (plural nominative); PS probably *šen ‘sit -(singular)’, cf. -ša ‘on, upon’, Klamath čV- ‘sit (sg.)’ (Barker 1963b:67).]