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-enč, within sidewalls

Lexical suffix, –enč (w/ stressed-stem, –), within sidewalls, is locational and derivational. It indicates a position remaining adjacent to the sidewalls of some body, cavity, form.

Nselišcn worldview perceives forms with the basic shape of a top, base, and walls. All forms have this shape. Bodies and structures have a shape. Reality and events have this shape. Emotions are seen as being within this shape, to be enclosed in the walls of the emotion. Mountains and hills are seen as the sidewalls of reality or the day.

/ /-enč

n-/ /-enč

x̌ʷl-/ /-enč

k̓ʷɬ-/ /-enč

č-/ /-enč

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