tejku
intransitive verb/tej·ku/
Meanings
- 1
to go up, climb, rise
Documented in Nahuizalco: Todd (1953), Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), King's index, recorded 1930, The Izalcos (Izalco and Nahuizalco): Baratta (1951), Cuisnahuat: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Schultze Jena (1935), King's index, Baratta (1951), Todd (1953), Campbell (1985), King (2011a), Hernández (2019)
Forms
- present
- nitejku,tejkut
- preterite
- tejkuk
In the texts
The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
- NahuizalcotejcuKing's standard: tejkumontar, subir
- IzalcoteχkuKing's standard: tejkusubir
- The Izalcos (Izalco and Nahuizalco)Tejcunahuat.com's standard: tejkuSubir
- Cuisnahuat, Santo Domingo de GuzmántehkuKing's standard: tejkuto climb, to ascend, to go up, to rise
- No towntejkugo up ; climb
- No townTejkusubir, ascender; subirse (al tren, carreta); trepar, escalar
Sources
- 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
- King, Léxico del Náhuat Básico (2011), recorded 2004–2008
- Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)