Example Words

kapiminuesht	(nap)	cook
katshinikuanipanit	(nip)	wheel

Participles are verbs that are commonly used like nouns. For this reason, they are called nominalisations. For some participles, the original verb may not even exist anymore; in this case, they exist in the lexicon only as nouns.

In the dictionary, nominalisations are marked using the following abbreviations:

• nap: noun animate participle
• nip: noun inanimate participle