Tsakxa lexicon

Nouns

fasha - year, class 2

kangqa - beast, class 1

kutqu - cave

mama - person, class 2

pan - wolf, class 1

paʔe - child, class 1

pasak - cooking-pot, class 2

sat - a hut, class 1 or 2

sesu - sister, class 1

tap - eye, class 2

umut - gift, class 1

waspa - tent

wen - meat, plurale tantum

Pronouns

aʔ - 3ps

su - 1ps

tunxa - many

uʔ- - 2ps

Adjectives and adverbs

keq - dead

metqa - huge

pangxu - last year

patangqa - tomorrow

pesh - wealthy

tune - strange

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

miqat - to enjoy

nxa - to eat

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

paʔ - to strike

ta - to see (imperative root sang)

tas-ta - to look

tek - say

tunxa - sleep deeply, to lie comatose

utshu - to die

seweq - be intended for

wa-ak - to go

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

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

Conjunctions and particles

naq - anyhow, anyway, despite the preceding utterance

yen - and