tsun, tisin Alan King's standard spelling: tzuntisi
Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco
- Spanish
- moler
- With prefixes (inferred by King)
- nik-
/tzun·ti·si/
to grind up, to crush (coffee, rice, leaves)
Su wetzi miktuk, kikwit chiupi iswayu wan kitzuntisit, kichat chiupi achin wan kimakat ma kiuni.
If he falls down dead, they take a few of its leaves and grind them up, make a little water with them and give it to him to drink.
Documented in Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), recorded 1930, Santo Domingo de Guzmán: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Schultze Jena (1935), Campbell (1985), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)
The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco
Campbell (1985) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán
Hernández (2019) · No town
Ordóñez (2026) · No town