aptlamit / aptlamit : suffocate

Recordings:

Diane Mitchell (Listuguj)

Eunice Metallic

Joe Wilmot

Part of speech: verb animate intransitive

Translation: He/she is suffocating

Gloss: suffocate

Example:

Text: Pugtewigtug suel etliaptlamit. / Puktewiktuk suel etliaptlamit.

Translation: He/she almost sufficates in the fire.

Recording: Eunice Metallic

Pronunciation guide: ap·tê·la·mit

Alternate grammatical form:

aptlami / aptlami — I suffocate — (first person singular animate)

aptlamieg / aptlamiek — We suffocate — (first person dual exclusive animate)

aptlamultieg / aptlamultiek — We suffocating — (first person plural exclusive animate)

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apjigu'niet : bleed to death
aptlamit : suffocate
etltesing : where one got struck / where one got injured / beat or move rythmically / dance / shake
maltewiaq : bleed
maltewiet : bleed
maltewig : bloody
maltewit : bloody
maltews'g : cause to bleed by cutting
maltewsatl : cause to bleed by cutting
maltewte'g : cause to bleed by striking
maltewtesg : bleed as a result of a fall
maltewtesing : bleed as a result of a fall
maltewtesmatl : cause to bleed by a fall
maltewtestoq : causes to bleed by a fall

apjitoq : out of breath (as a result of a tantrum) / out of breath
aptlama'latl : smother / block off air from
aptlamit : suffocate
aptlamsing : lose breath (in gale)
getu'_unjanit : pregnant / expect baby
migultiat : experience (by male) pregnancy symptoms of partner / become irritated (as first child) when mother carries her second child / sympathy pains (by male)