elk'ajel

Phonetic

[ʔel.kʼa.ˈxel]

English: Translation

To steal

Spanish: Translation

Robar

Part of Speech

intransitive verb

Semantic Domain

Physical Actions

Social activities and interactions

Example Sentence

Mu xtun li elk'ajele yu'un ti mi jech ta spasike ta sa'ik smulik.

English: Example Sentence

Stealing is bad because those who do it commit a crime.

Spanish: Example Sentence

Robar es malo porque quienes lo hacen cometen un delito.

Dialect

San Cristóbal de las Casas

Huixtán

San Andrés Larrainzar

Morphology

Elek' + -ajel

Notes

Incompletivo Co mpletivo

1ra Ta xi-elk'aj Li-elk'aj

2da Ta xa-elk'aj La-elk'aj

3ra Ta x-elk'aj Elk'aj

1ra (p., excl.) Ta xi-elk'ajotik Li-elk'ajotik

1ra (p., incl.) Ta x-elk'ajkutik Li-elk'ajkutik

2da (p.) Ta xa-elk'ajik La-elk'ajik

3ra (p.) Ta x-elk'ajik Elk'ajik

Source

vocabulario-tsotsil-espanol-2002

k-oponun-ta-bats-i-k-op-2021

las-manifestaciones-sintacticas-semanticas-y-discursivas-de-la-agentividad-en-el-tsotsil-de-huixtan-2002

vocabulario-tzotzil-de-san-andres-con-variaciones-dialectales-1978