tajku

Uncertain. Perhaps from archaic root *tāk- (“torso”) + -ku (locative). Compare Classical Nahuatl tlahco (“half”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtahku/

tajku

1. half

   Se tajku yejemet yajket pal pewat tekitit

   Half of them left to start working

2. (possessed) waist, rump

   Shikilpi ne mukwey ka mutajku

   Tie your skirt around your waist

-tajku

1. among, between, in the middle of

   Mukawki ne tawikani ka itajku ne ujti

   The bus stopped in the middle of the road

-tajku

1. to halve, to cut in half, to divide in two halves

   Kitajkuk ne atzaput pal sentakwat

   She/he cut the pear in half so they could eat together

• (halve): -tajkuwia

tajku

1. while, during the time that

   Tajku nemi tajkwilua, ne siwapil kielnamik ka inteuk kinutztuya ne ieltiw

   While she was writing, the girl remembered she hadn't called her sister yet