-t̓a

Desiderative: Want, wish. As -t̓a: čúut̓a ‘be thirsty’; tkʷátat̓a ‘want to eat’; wɨšát̓a ‘want to lie down’; -pát̓a ‘desire, crave’. As -at̓a: ík̓aywakat̓a ‘want to outdo’; wáyčat̓a ‘go look for’; wɨ́npat̓a ‘want to cross’; wɨšáyčat̓a ‘want to stay’. With stem final n deleted: łúukat̓a ‘need to urinate’; q̓ínwat̓a ‘want to see’; šúkʷayat̓a ‘want to learn’; tíitat̓a ‘want to flatulate’; wɨx̣íyat̓a ‘want to lie down’. As -tat̓a: anítat̓a ‘want to make’; wínatat̓a ‘want to go’; x̣nítat̓a ‘want to dig’. Some examples: pápaˀik̓aywakat̓ana ‘they wanted to outdo each other’; ku kʷná pawámšita ana šíman kʷná pawšáyčat̓ata ‘and whoever will want to stay there will buy on credit’; ku kʷaaná panáktux̣ʷat̓ašamš ‘and they want to bring that back’; ku kʷyáam pašúkʷayat̓aša sɨ́nwit naamí ‘and truly they went to learn our language’; paˀiƛ̓iyawitát̓ana kʷɨ́nik̓a ‘they wanted to kill them next on that side’; ataš tún anítat̓aša ‘anything that we want to make’; ana kʷná patáˀanitat̓aša níit ‘where they are wanting to build the house’; ana túntya áw paˀanítat̓ax̣ana ‘whatever now they would want to make’; ana kʷɨ́nki paˀanítat̓aša tún ‘with that which they are wanting to make something’. [NP /-ˀpécwi/; cf. NP prospective /-tet̓e/ ‘be about to’.]