tancuain Alan King's standard spelling: tankwa
Aráuz (1960) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- morder
- Note
- Arauz: a.
-tankwa
transitive verb/tan·kwa/
Nantzin Fidelina Cortes (elder) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán · Timumachtikan Nawat
Meanings
- 1
to bite
Documented in Nahuizalco: Aráuz (1960), recorded about 1915–1924, Todd (1953), Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), recorded 1930, The Izalcos (Izalco and Nahuizalco): Baratta (1951), Cuisnahuat: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Aráuz (1960), Schultze Jena (1935), Baratta (1951), Todd (1953), Campbell (1985), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)
Forms
- present
- kitankwa · Sources: Ordóñez (2026)niktankwa · Sources: Campbell (1985)
- preterite
- kitankwaj · Sources: Campbell (1985)
- perfect
- kitankwajtuk · Sources: Campbell (1985)
- iterative
- tajtankwa · Sources: Schultze Jena (1935), Hernández (2019)
Pronunciation
Nantzin Fidelina Cortes (elder) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán
recorded by LRRodriguez · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Timumachtikan Nawat (opens in a new tab) · audio adapted by nahuat.com
In the texts
- kitankwa2 times
The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
- tancuain Alan King's standard spelling: tankwa
Todd (1953) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- morder
- tan-kuain Alan King's standard spelling: tankwa
Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco
- Spanish
- morder
- With prefixes (inferred by King)
- shik-
- Imperative and subjunctive (inferred by King)
- -tankwa
- Iterative (inferred by King)
- -tajtankwa
- Alan King's note
- Pace Schultze (who gives "nitankwa"), all corpus examples point to a transitive verb.
- Itancuain nahuat.com's standard spelling: itankwa
Baratta (1951) · p. 291 · The Izalcos (Izalco and Nahuizalco)
- Spanish
- Morder
- As printed
- Morder — Itancua, Tencua
- tankwa
Campbell (1985) · Cuisnahuat, Santo Domingo de Guzmán
- Town
- Cuisnahuat (Q)
- Spanish
- morder
- English
- to bite
- pres.
- tankwa
- pret.
- tankwah
- Example
- ki-tankwah
- he bit him
- Pronunciation
- [gitankwah]
- perf.
- tankwah-tuk
- See also
- -tan "tooth", kwa "to eat"
- On the etymology
- CN tlanqua (Sim.) morder
- Town
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
- Example
- ni-k-tankwa
- I bite it
- Pronunciation
- [nikta?gwa?]
- See also
- ta-tankwa "to be biting (something)"
vt - -Tajtankwain nahuat.com's standard spelling: Tajtankwa
Hernández (2019) · No town
- Spanish
- desgarrar
verbo transitivo- As printed
- -Tajtankwa desgarrar
- -Tankwain nahuat.com's standard spelling: Tankwa
Hernández (2019) · No town
- Spanish
- morder
verbo transitivo- As printed
- -Tankwa morder
- tankwa
Ordóñez (2026) · No town
- Definition
- morder, desgarrar (con diente). Ne mas achtu yu mukawa. Taja tiu timukaws tiktajkalilia ne itan pal te kitankwa ne piltzintzin. El mayor se va a quedar. Vas a quedarte vos a derribarle el diente para que no muerda al muchachito.
v tr.- As printed
- tankwa v tr. morder, desgarrar (con diente). Ne mas achtu yu mukawa. Taja tiu timukaws tiktajkalilia ne itan pal te kitankwa ne piltzintzin. El mayor se va a quedar. Vas a quedarte vos a derribarle el diente para que no muerda al muchachito.
Sources
- Aráuz, El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos (1960), recorded about 1915–1924
- Schultze Jena, Mythen in der Muttersprache der Pipil von Izalco (1935), recorded 1930
- Baratta, Cuzcatlán típico (1951)
- Todd, Notas del náhuat de Nahuizalco (1953)
- Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985), recorded 1970–1976
- Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)
- Ordóñez, Diccionario náhuat (2026)