Sometimes the suffix is heard attached to pagh ("zero, none"), producing the technically ungrammatical term paghDIch ("zeroth"). It is used to describe something that was expected to occur but has not, or that could conceivably occur but has not. For example, one might say pawpu' 'avwI' paghDIch ("the zeroth guard has arrived"; pawpu', "has arrived"), implying that no guard has arrived even though one (and probably more than one) is expected. Similarly, one might describe how to wield a painstik during the Rite of Ascension by saying: