Tsakxa lexicon

Nouns

atete - knife, class 1

engqa - fly, class 1

fasha - year, class 2

kangqa - beast, class 1

kutqu - cave, class 1

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

sewa - girl, class 1

tu - brother, class 1

tap - eye, class 2

tata - father, 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

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

ngqu - to command

nxa - to eat

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

paʔ - to strike

ta - to see (imperative root sang)

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

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

naq - anyhow, anyway, despite the preceding utterance

yen - and