colspan="2" | Intensification | wa| | | ksixtu wa 'they are very crazy' nkaduti wa nkande 'I am ever eating' | It is unclear exactly how wa differs from xti (see below). It is possible that xti means 'very' while wa means 'so'. wa sometimes may be glossed as 'always'. |- ! colspan="2" | Completive mode | ǫ~ǫni| te xti | xa | ǫ eyąhi ǫ he got there (long ago) atuka kitani ǫ 'the raccoon was first (in the past)' ǫni kitsąya yą tanaki utoho ǫni 'the American first lay in it (in the past)' ani yą hu ǫni 'the water was coming' | Emphasizes that the event occurred in the past. ǫ often is followed by xa, which may be glossed either as the expected 'regularly in the past', or 'in the remote past': kide ǫ xa 'she went home (in the remote past)' etikǫtu ǫ xa 'they did so (regularly in the past' |- ! colspan="2" | Superlative mode | xti| colspan="2" | occurs immediately after whatever is being intensified | supi xti tu 'they are very black' tca yi xti ande 'he was killing all' | xti may be used with adverbs: ewite xti 'very early in the morning' kuhi xti 'very high' |- |} With morphophonemic ||E||, see above ||xo|| > ||xyo|| / i___ / į___ (see above) ||xa|| > ||xya|| / Vf___ optionally (see above) because ||ni + ni|| > /ni/, see above requires person marker Stems ending in -di lose -i and gain -ki, others just gain tki Derivation Nouns Nouns may be derived either through nominalizing verbs or by compounding. Verbs are nominalized via the prefix a-: sǫ 'sharp at all ends' asǫ 'briar' duti 'eat' aduti 'food' Compound nouns may either be formed by combining two nouns or a noun and a verb. (Some morphophonemic rules are involved, see above.) noun + noun: ||cindi + aho|| > /cindaho/ 'hip + bone' = 'hip bone' ||peti + ti|| > /petiti/ 'fire + house' = 'fireplace' noun + verb: ||sǫpxi + ǫni|| > /sǫpxǫni/ 'flour + make' = 'wheat' ||ąyadi + ade|| > /ąyadiade/ 'people + talk' = 'language' Pronouns For the personal pronoun indi, see above. įkowa may be used as a reflexive pronoun. It is possible that both of these, and perhaps the reflexive pronoun -įxki- (see below) are derived from a root in. Interrogatives A number of interrogatives come from