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yax- to see 20.10 yaxl'us^n tE sl'xa'' (whenever) I 



saw that canoe (coming) 100.8, 9 



qn^'w to find 34.12 H^nx qnuwl'wus yafl'xa^ Jiltcu'^^ 



they would find lots of people 

 {qnuwl'wus<C[nuwl'yus) 66.22 



By suffixing the durative -s to the sign for the past tense, -yax (see 

 § 74) a compound suffix -yaxs is obtained which denotes an action of 

 long duration performed in the past. This suffix is often contracted 

 into -Ixs (see § 9). 



a'^s- to sleep 24.1 a^'syaxsin^ a^'sixsin I had been 



sleeping 

 qatd^^- to drink 76.11 qa'tcimHs, qaJtcvmyaxs he had been 



drinking 

 lit!- to eat 13.10 ll'tlyaxsin I have been eating 



PeJcu'^- to play shinny 9.4 pd'Tcu^xsin, pa'Tc'^yaxsin I have 



been playing shinny 



§ 70. Iiitentionals -awax, -a^un 

 -awax. This suffix indicates intention to perform a certain action. 

 Hence it was usually rendered by I (thou). . . am about to, I 

 (thou) ... am going to, I (thou) . . . WILL, I (thou) . . . 

 want to. It is used with intransitive verbs only; and it is contracted 

 with the subjective pronouns, for persons other than the first person 

 singular and the second dual and plural, into -awatix^ -awans^ -awa^x, 

 -awanl^ -awanxan^ and -aioanx (see § 24). 



aq- to run away 52.10 aqa'waxan I intend to run away 



90.21 

 ants plna' st H aJn^xyatlya aga'wax 

 that sick (man) always thought 

 of running away 86.15 



L%'u (they) come 9.3 Llwa'vMnx you intend to come 25.8 



yaq^^- to look 23.9 yoq'^'ya'vMX he intended to see 70.8 



yaq^'^ya'wanxcm we (excl.) are go- 

 ing to see 



qaqun- to listen qaquna'wax hla'"-^ they were go- 



ing to listen 30.18 



hutc- to play, to have fun 7.2 hu'tcawans we two (incl.) are go- 

 ing to play 10,5 



plul- to hunt plula'ioax^xiln we two (excl.) in- 



tend to go hunting 64.22 



m.lk^- to cut 90.5 mlkwa'waxts you two will cut 



§ 70 



