Definition:
To, go (to), into.
Function:
Allative case. Attach to nouns. -nmí is required before attaching to pronouns.
Examples:
- wínašaaš nixyáwiyaw ‘I am going to Pendleton’;
- čáwnaš wáyx̣tišana náx̣šyaw káˀuyityaw ‘I was not running to another feast’;
- kuna wiyánawiša k̓ʷáalkyaw níityaw ‘and we are arriving at the long house’;
- iyáx̣taša sayáykʷ tkʷsáyyaw ‘he is pouring sand into the pot’;
- iwá pútɨmt k̓úycyaw nɨkníyaw ‘it is ten (minutes) to nine o’clock’;
- níix̣ tiičám iwáta nawnɨmłáyaw ‘it will be a good place for the mechanic’;
- átamaynačtanam tkʷátatna imiyawáy wáwnakʷšašyaw áwtnina ‘you will put the tabooed food into your body’;
- iwiyánawiya tilaakinmíyaw ‘he arrived at the woman’s place’;
- ku pawiyánawiya naamíyaw nč̓inč̓imaamíyaw ‘and they arrived at our elder’s’;
- inmíyawx̣inam išapáwinama kałáp ‘your grandmother sent you to me’. As dative case: ašwaníyaan paníya miyuux̣míyaw ‘they gave a slave to the chief’;
- pamániya sulcasmíyaw ‘they gave themselves for the army’;
- wawyałanmíyawnaš pašapáwawyana ‘they had the whipman whip me’;
- winšmíyaw patášapatkʷatana ‘they had the man “eat a person up”‘.
- With nominalized verbs:
- iyíkna walptáyktyaw ‘he heard the singing’;
- k̓ʷáyš kʷɨ́ł áykɨnx̣ana inmímaaman nč̓ínč̓imaaman sɨ́nwityaw ‘that much I used to hear my elders speak’;
- átq̓ix̣šanaaš paanáy wínatyaw ‘I wanted him to go’;
- ana pmáy pamáwšuwaša x̣nítatyaw ‘they who are getting themselves ready to go root digging’.
- Reduced to -w in the following:
- kutaš ánakwinana payuwitpamáw ‘and we took her to the hospital’.
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[NP /-(p)k/.]