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:''nxa'' - to eat
:''nxa'' - to eat
:''p'' - to be, locative copula. Takes no aspect suffixes.
:''p'' - to be, locative copula. Takes no aspect suffixes.
:''paʔ'' - to strike
:''ta'' - to see (imperative root ''sang'')
:''ta'' - to see (imperative root ''sang'')
:''tas-ta'' - to look
:''tas-ta'' - to look

Revision as of 17:55, 20 November 2010

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

- 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

aq - to walk
enxa - to eat (generic)
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
tik - 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