Habitual/frequentative aspect. patkʷátax̣a kʷaaná ‘they eat that’; pawɨ́npɨnx̣a ‘they buy’; iwínax̣ana ‘he used to go’; pawáašax̣ana ‘they used to dance’; iwínax̣a ‘he goes’; iwínax̣ata ‘he will keep going’. [NE habitual/ frequentative present reduces to -x̣; for possible source, compare x̣a ‘lie prone, lie on the back’.]
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