Nahuat

-pusteki

transitive verb

/pus·te·ki/

Meanings

  1. 1

    to bend, to fold

    Documented in ,

    Sources: Schultze Jena (1935), Campbell (1985), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)

  2. 2

    to break

    Kwakuni tamik kipujpusteki muchi ne itajtan.

    Then he ended up breaking all his teeth.

    Sources: Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)

Forms

iterative
pujpustekiSources: Hernández (2019)

In the texts

The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.

  • pustegin Alan King's standard spelling: pusteki

    Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco

    Spanish
    doblar
    Inaccusative (inferred by King)
    ta-
    Iterative (inferred by King)
    -pujpusteki
    Emphatic (inferred by King)
    pustektuka
  • pusteki

    Campbell (1985) · Cuisnahuat, Santo Domingo de Guzmán

    Town
    Cuisnahuat (Q)
    vt
    Spanish
    doblar
    English
    to fold, to bend
    pres.
    pusteki
    Example
    ni-k-pusteki
    I fold it
    pret.
    pustek
    perf.
    pustek-tuk
    See also
    ta-pusteki "to be folding"
    See also
    teki "to cut"
    On the etymology
    CN cf. posteki (Car.) quebrar; poztequi (Sim.) romper, quebrar
    Town
    Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
    Spanish
    doblar maíz
    English
    to bend corn plants
  • -Pujpustekiin nahuat.com's standard spelling: Pujpusteki

    Hernández (2019) · No town

    verbo transitivo
    Spanish
    resquebrajar
    As printed
    -Pujpusteki resquebrajar
  • -Pustekiin nahuat.com's standard spelling: Pusteki

    Hernández (2019) · No town

    verbo transitivo
    Spanish
    romper, quebrar, doblar
    As printed
    -Pusteki romper, quebrar, doblar
  • pusteki

    Ordóñez (2026) · No town

    v tr.
    Definition
    doblar, quebrar (objetos horizontales o verticales en grandes pedazos). Kwakuni ne konejo kitek se selek wan kitamutilik tik ne ten. Kwakuni tamik kipujpusteki muchi ne itajtan. Entonces el conejo cortó uno verde y se la tiró a la boca. Luego terminó quebrándole todos los dientes. [2, 3]
    tanpujpusteki
    v tr.
    Definition
    romper dientes.
    tapusteki
    v inac.
    Definition
    doblar milpa.
    As printed
    pusteki v tr. doblar, quebrar (objetos horizontales o verticales en grandes pedazos). Kwakuni ne konejo kitek se selek wan kitamutilik tik ne ten. Kwakuni tamik kipujpusteki muchi ne itajtan. Entonces el conejo cortó uno verde y se la tiró a la boca. Luego terminó quebrándole todos los dientes. •tanpujpusteki v tr. romper dientes. •tapusteki v inac. doblar milpa. [2, 3]

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Sources

  • Schultze Jena, Mythen in der Muttersprache der Pipil von Izalco (1935), recorded 1930
  • Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985), recorded 1970–1976
  • Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)
  • Ordóñez, Diccionario náhuat (2026)