aamúuni kill / hit or strike a living being, be it with a body part, or [...]

1. • kill

   • • Example 18:
       

       Kaa kina=miisaákari niwa, nuú kina aámuu tamɨ́nɨɨna=jata.

       If you don’t do this, he will kill you with lightning.

2. • hit or strike a living being, be it with a body part, or with an instrument

   Grammar Note

   If a body part is struck, its corresponding NP typically takes the locative postpostion general locative postposition <=jina>

   • • Example 19:
       

       Na=aámuuyaa n=anásiiki=jina.

       They strike them (my chickens) in their lower leg bones.

3. • hit an inanimate object with or without an implement, e.g., hitting one’s hand against a table, or hitting something with a stick, including, e.g., hitting a drum with a stick

   Grammar Note

   In this sense, the verbal object does not take a locative postposition

   • • Example 20:
       

       Riniíria aámuuyaárikɨ wúumpu.

       Reinerio played the bass drum.

4. • pound or pulp certain plants in order that they be usable, e.g., <tatɨɨ> (‘cashapona’) palm trunks, which must be pounded so that the exterior part splits up into laths that can be used for floors or walls; or <miríjaaja> (‘mishquipanga’) fruits, which must be pounded to split them and remove their seeds; or <nuúruu> (‘barbasco’), which must be pulped to release its fish-incapacitating fluid

   Grammar Note

   In this sense, the verbal object does not take a locative postposition

   • • Example 21:
       

       Iiti=ji pɨɨ́ pɨ=nuúruu aámuu, nu=iwáani=íira naami iwatáani=iíkuma.

       From here we will pound our barbasco, so that it arrives downriver in the sacarita.