Indeed must have. páaax̣amx̣ašta k̓ʷáy kúuš átɨnx̣ana ‘five times indeed that one must have gone out’; ku kúuk papx̣ʷíta, kúušx̣ašta míimi iwačá nč̓ínč̓i naamí tanánwit ‘and then they will think: long ago the Indian way of our elders surely must have been like that’; ayáyatx̣ašta áwača ‘theirs must have been beautiful’; kʷnáx̣ašta páyš čáw iwɨ́šayča ‘maybe he didn’t pass away there’; kʷáalx̣ašta pánakwinana čúušin ‘the water surely must have brought him that far’; iwačáx̣ašta kskɨ́s wána ‘there indeed must have been a little creek’. [NW =x̣aštx̣.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation