Tsakxa lexicon
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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
- umut - gift, class 1
- wa - boy/youth, class 1
- waspa - tent, class 2
- 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
- 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