ti-ek-ti-e’k v. to repeatedly gag or choke (intensive, violent, or sustained action)
🧠 NOTE:
In sequences like /ie/, the high vowel /i/ may weaken into a glide [i̯].
When prosodic weight increases (e.g., under reduplication), the following vowel /e/ may become moraic, marked by okina (’), yielding forms like /ti-e’k/.