sapá-

Definition:

make someone or something to do something individually.


Function:

Causative. Diminutive (individuative). Attach to verbs.


Examples:

  1. sapác̓ɨmk ‘sharpen’;
  2. sapákiik ‘clean’;
  3. sapák̓stn ‘cool down, freeze’;
  4. sapák̓psn ‘cool down’;
  5. sapák̓uk ‘gather together’;
  6. sapák̓ʷłtik ‘dry, dry off’;
  7. sapálalp̓a ‘paint a picture’;
  8. sapátaawayi ‘freeze’;
  9. sapúukasi ‘copy’;
  10. sapaˀixáwas ‘soap’;
  11. sapacanpáwas ‘bit, bridle’;
  12. sapak̓pstpamá ‘refrigerator, freezer, locker’;
  13. sapasunaytí ‘wheel barrow’;
  14. sapátwa ‘salve’;
  15. sapawaq̓ɨpáwas ‘button’;
  16. sapáx̣ʷluus ‘fishing scaffold’.
  17. sapat̓ax̣ináwi ‘measure’;
  18. sapáƛupwaalata ‘fish with a fixed net at a fish jumping place’;
  19. sapáwiilata ‘rope fish at a waterfall’;
  20. sapáx̣aluun ‘catch fish at a fish weir’;

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šapá- (regular causative)

[NP /cepé-/.]