nuk'il

Phonetic

[nu.ˈkʼil]

English: Translation

Throat; neck

Spanish: Translation

Garganta; cuello

Part of Speech

noun

Semantic Domain

Body parts

Example Sentence

Ch'abal yu'un jatvilun —xi ti kots tuluk'e, yu'un tsk’an sti'ukun, jech li jatav tal, jutuk xa mu la sk'okbikun ti jnuk'e —xi la ti tuluk'e.

English: Example Sentence

"I'm escaping because they want to eat me," the turkey responded. "They almost cut off my head, that's why I ran away".

Spanish: Example Sentence

—Estoy escapando porque me quieren comer —respondió el guajolote—. Por poco me cortan la garganta, por eso salí huyendo.

Plural form

nuk'iletik

Dialect

San Cristóbal de las Casas

Huixtán

Zinacantán

Venustiano Carranza

San Andrés Larrainzar

Morphology

Nuk' + -il

Notes

Al poseerse se quita -il.

Source

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

vocabulario-tsotsil-espanol-2002

chano-bats-i-k-op-aprenda-tsotsil-2010

jpok-svunal-yutsilal-k-op-a-yej-ta-bats-i-k-op-ta-tsotsil-2018