Pause to eat, eat first and then do something. wáatkʷatašanaaš ‘I was stopping to eat’; wáatkʷatašaataš ‘we are stopping to eat’; iwáatkʷataša ‘he is pausing to eat’; wáatkʷatatamtk ‘come eat!’. [NW wíitkʷata; NP /weyet´p/.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation