=teileeabout to, going to, willfuture predictive with first-hand knowledge, as when saying "I" or "we" will do something. Question and answer pairs in the texts often demonstrate this well, with =teelh or =teel in the question and =teilee or =teelee... in the first person answer."Naaniidilh-teilee.""We are about to arrive back.GT02b 50.1"Naashdaash-teilee haideeʾ," tcʾin yaaʾnii, aatcʾingʾ."I'm about to get back to the north," he said to himself, they say.GT02b 50.3"Doo-kwooʾoshtceeh-teilee.""I am not going to cry about him."GT08 24.1"Uutcooniitcaan-ee dooyiiheeʾ-et; naahishdaash-teilee.""I abandoned it because I am tired; I am about to go home.GT08 28.1"Shchaaghan-teilee."I am going to sleep."GT08 29.8"Doo-naashdilh-teilee.""I am not going to go back.GT08 44.1Doo-taahshooʾ siidaa-teilee.I am going to stay in no such place.GT08 44.2"Ntisloos-teilee haandit.""Next time I'm going to take you along.GT10 15.12Neesding tiidilh-teilee daasiit.We will go a long way soon.GT10 15.13"Nhilh skiik naakaaʾ-haaʾ ghiloos-teilee," tcʾin yaaʾnii.You will bring both children with us," he said, they say.GT10 15.14"Doo-shdjiikwyaan-ei; doo-kwnishʾiinʾ-teilee," tcʾin yaaʾnii.I Do Not Like Him. I Am Not Going To Look At Him," she said, they say.GT10 17.6"Taahshooʾ tishyaash-teilee, tcʾkwolooʾ-it.""Sometime I am going to go away because he pretended.GT10 19.2"Haagheeʾ siidaa-teilee.""I am going to stay a long time.GT10 28.1"Heuʾ," tcʾin yaaʾnii, "naahishdaash-teilee taahshooʾ.""Yes," he said, they say, "I am going to go back home sometime."GT10 30.1Tcʾeek ilhchʾin yaaʾnii, "Naahneesh lhaanding ntishloos-teilee, daasiits chʾaan lhaan-eehit."He told the woman, they say, "Soon let me take you to a place where there are many people because there is a lot of food."GT10 37.6Naahishdaash-teilee, beenaashʾaiʾ-teilee.I am going to go back and try again.GT10 45.2"Tcʾyaantc doohaaʾ-waankwilik-bangjaaʾ bilh hiinakʾ neesding tiidilh-teilee.""Old woman, you must not tell him that we are going to go far to the south with her.GT10 49.1"Doo-shdjiidoosit-teilee.""I am not going to be lonely.GT10 50.1"Doo-daanshooʾ shdjiiyiilhtik-teilee."Nobody is going to kill me."GT10 50.7"Chʾintʾaang doo-tcooshchiish-teilee lhaang.""I am not going to leave many acorns behind."GT10 51.1"Kaashbiiʾ tidighish-teilee," tcʾin yaaʾnii.We are going to haul a load tomorrow," she said, they say.GT10 55.3Kʾaiʾtbilh naakaaʾnaakaaʾ kʾaiʾtbilh-teilee.There are going to be four burden baskets.GT10 55.5"Shnaang, ntcoonditciish-teilee kaashbiiʾ."My mother, tomorrow we are going to leave you.GT10 55.7"Tiidilh-teilee, shnaang chʾaakat-biiʾ kwinyeehiidilh-teilee, ninkwiiyeeh ghiidilh-teilee."We are going to go, my mother, we're going to go underground in a hole, we're going to go along underground.GT10 55.9"Doo-nheelhkeeʾ-teilee.""He is not going to catch up with us tracking.GT10 57.1Tcaakwilhghilh-teilee.It is going to get dark.GT10 64.9"Lhʾghish uudjiisolhtik-deeʾ, sheeʾeedin-teilee uudjiiʾolhtik-deeʾ."When you kill the rattlesnake, I will die if you kill it.GT30 16.5"Ntʾaaʾ kaalʾaaʾ-teilee.""Your feathers are going to sprout up.GT37 8.1Beentʾaah-teilee diidakʾ yaah-biiʾingʾ.You will fly up into the sky.GT37 8.28.4.6.4Future9.4.1.1Tensecomp. of=teelhwill/shall=iNR=yeeeyewitness evidential affirmativeSource forms: tē letē letē le, tē le´, te le, tē lītei lĕtele
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