kuspill
Appearance
Cahuilla
[edit]Etymology
[edit]root: kúspi + suffix: -ill = kúspill
Noun
[edit]kúspill
- The throat, its throat
- Kúspi petuk (petuk: (adv) inside); inside of her/his throat
- (synonym) paxwáyva'al; inside of her/his throat
Verb
[edit]-qélla-
- (intrs.) to feel sore
- kúspi qéllaka (future inceptive -ka); her/his throat is beginning to feel sore, i.e. she/he has a sore throat
-témi-
- (intrs.) to close
- -témin- (causative -ni-) to cause to close
- kúspiy petéminqal; it is causing her/his throat to close
- kúspiy~peytéminva'al (verbal noun phrase) - lit. throat_where-it-causes-to-close; (Cahuilla grammar) the glottal stop < ' >; e.g. < va'al>
- peytéminva'al (causative root témi-n + 2nd class O-S prefix: pe-y, + "place of" suffix: va'al); lit. Jail, or "place of causing to close"
Declension
[edit]Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | kúspill | kúspillem |
Objective | kúspi'lli | kúspillmi |
Genitive | kúspi | kúspim |
Objective Genitive | kúspiy | kúspimi |