Tsakxa lexicon

Nouns

angxa - tree, class 1

angxangxa - copse, class 1

atete - knife, class 1

engqa - fly, class 1

esuse - buttock, class 1

fasha - year, class 2

kangqa - beast, class 1

kutqu - cave, class 1

kur - town, class 1

lele - hand, class 1

laqe - finger or thumb, class 2

leshe - female reproductive organs, class 1

mama - person, class 2

maya - mother, class 2

matu - maternal uncle, class 2

masu - maternal aunt, class 2

pan - wolf, class 1

paʔe - child, class 1

pasak - cooking-pot, class 2

Puku - God (PUKU - 'the LORD')

rat - chest, class 1

rata - viscera, class 1

resat - stomach, bowels, class 2

sat - a hut, class 1 or 2

sesu - sister, class 1

sewa - girl, class 1

shuwe - paternal aunt, class 1

shuma - mouth, class 1

shuna - ear, class 1

sapaspa - tent village, class 1 or 2

sungxe - foot, class 1

suqa - leg, class 1

suqaqe - toe, class 1

sute - bear, class 1

tu - brother, class 1

tap - eye, class 2

tata - father, class 1

ʔaqa - penis, class 2

ʔenxu - a body of hair, fur, class 1

ʔuwe - nose, class 1

qa - arm, class 1

qewa - strand of hair, class 2

qunu - tongue, class 1

quwe - paternal uncle, class 1

umut - gift, class 1

wa - boy/youth, class 1

waspa - tent, class 2

wan - meat, class 2

Pronouns

aʔ - 3ps

su - 1ps

tunxa - many

uʔ- - 2ps

Adjectives and adverbs

keq - dead

metqa - huge

pangxu - last year

patangqa - tomorrow

pesh - wealthy

qunxu - pretty, attractive, feminine

tune - strange

wa - young

wapesa - bald

wasa - blue or green

weq - long (in terms of time), long-lasting

weqeq - eternal

Verbs

as-aq - to walk

aq - to walk (intransitive)

enxa - to eat (generic)

kaq - to sit down

lulu - to mock

miqat - to enjoy

ngqu - to command

nutu - to shoot

nxa - to eat

p - to be, locative copula. Takes no aspect suffixes.

paʔ - to strike

ta - to see (imperative root sang)

tafa - to flee

tashet - to read

tas-ta - to look (imperative root sang)

tek - say

te-sa - think

tunqa - sleep deeply, to lie comatose

tusha - to kill

utshu - to die

seweq - be intended for

unutu - curse

wa-ak - to go

wes - to eat a meal, to dine, to feast (only applied to humans)

yuyut - to cut

Auxiliaries

ush-u - moving away, away

nas-u - be able to

tuq-u - must, have to, necessarily

aʔ-u - intensifier

Derivative suffixes

-angxa - generic suffix. Creates 'group' and is used in generic situations Mamangxa wen enxu semiqatungxu - people love eating meat

-(V)ya - added to verbs to create a agent noun (enxa-ya - an eater)

-(V)tu - added to verbs to create a patient noun (miqat-tu - something that is enjoyed)

-(V)ta - added to verbs to create a dative noun (tasha-ta - recipient, someone to whom something is sent)

se- - feminine prefix. Causes lenition.

Conjunctions and particles

aqa - asserts the masculine dominance of the speaker

naq - anyhow, anyway, despite the preceding utterance

suʔa - etc, and so on

yen - and

Translations

2 Kings 2:23-24

²³E Eleyesakxa wa Beteyelatqe utak. As-aʔ tusu aʔem asas saqte kurut wangxakxa telulu wa tak. "A-suʔ tafa, wapesa!", uwu. "A-suʔ tafa, wapesa!"
²³ From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!”

E Eleyesa-kxa wa Beteyel-atqe ut-ak. As-aʔ tusu aʔ-em as-as sa-aq-te kur-ut wa-ngxa-kxa te-lulu-u wa ta-ak. "A-suʔ ta-afa, wapesa!", uwu. "A-suʔ ta-afa, wapesa!"

there Elisha go⁰ Bethel-ADESS ABL-go⁰. 3ps road 3ps-TOPIC go⁰~IMPERF¹ COM³-go⁰-TEMP⁺¹ town-ABL youth-PAUC-ERG ABS^-3-mock⁰-CONJ⁺³ come⁰ LAT³-come⁰. 2ps ABL-flee⁰, bald, say⁰. 2ps ABL-flee⁰, bald.

²⁴ As-wa aʔ ushu tastas sama PUKUQA sunutunxayen. Angxangxa wa sutetekxa utak wangxa natafana stushanxayen.
²⁴ He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

As-wa aʔ ush-u tas-tas sa-ma as-wa PUKU-qa se-unutu-nxa-yen. Angxangxa wa sute-t-ekxa ut-ak wa-ngxa na-tafa-na se-tusha-nxa-yen.

3pp 3ps turn⁰-CONJ³ look⁰~IMPERF¹ LOC³-look⁰ 3pp GOD-dat ABS^-3-curse⁰-PERF¹-and³. Forest come⁰ bear-PLU-ERG ABL³-come⁰ boy-PAUC two-twenty-two ABS^-3-kill⁰-PERF⁺¹-and⁺³.