tkʷáyi

Lie inert, lie prone after a fall. Inanimate or unconscious and saliently one dimensional subject. itkʷáyiša ‘it’s lying there, he’s lying inert (“if it’s a person he’s sleeping”)’; itkʷáyiša ílukas ‘the wood is lying there’; itkʷáyiša yúuk twá ‘the tepee poles are lying over yonder’; x̣átkʷayi ‘fall prone’; táwtkʷayi ‘lie sleeping’. [NP /tkʷéyi/.]