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ru tang
ru xlyia[ru’uh x:lyiàa’]
get a fever
bookmarkruan[rùàa’n]
cry
bookmarkruchia[ru’chììa’]
get saved, get kept
bookmarkruny[ruhny]
runy cambiar[ruhny cambiaar]
change (something)
bookmarkruny cham[ruhny cha’mm]
work
bookmarkruny dibertier[ruhny dibertiier]
amuse (someone)
bookmarkruny diborsyar[ruhny diborsyaar]
divorce
bookmarkruny escojer[ruhny escojeer]
choose, select
bookmarkruny esplicar[ruhny esplicaar]
explain
bookmarkruny fald[ruhny fa’lld]
do something wrong at (a place); miss, is absent from (school)
bookmarkruny imbertier muly lo[ruhny imbertiier mùuully loh]
invest money in
bookmarkruny mandad[ruhny mandaad]
runy manejar[ruhny manejaar]
drive
bookmarkruny marcar[ruhny marcaar]
dial (a phone), call (on the phone)
bookmarkruny molestar[ruhny molestaar]
bother
bookmarkruny nesesitar[ruhny nesesitaar]
need
bookmarkruny odiar[ruhny odiaar]
hate
bookmarkruny operar[ruhny operaar]
operate on
bookmarkruny preguan[ruhny pregu’uann]
ask (someone) a question
bookmarkruny preparar[ruhny preparaar]
prepare (something), get (something) ready
bookmarkruny protejer[ruhny protejeer]
protect
bookmarkruny prweb[ruhny prweeb]
tests, gives a test to
bookmarkruny rreportar[ruhny rreportaar]
report
bookmarkruny sacrificar[ruhny sacrificaar]
make a sacrifice
bookmarkruny tomar fot[ruhny tomaar fo’t]
1. take photographs, take pictures 2. take a picture of, photograph (something or someone)
bookmarkruny tratar[ruhny trataar]
treat
bookmarkrunybyuzh[ruhnybyùuzh]
cut into little pieces
bookmarkrunychia[ruhnychììa’]
make, build
bookmarkrunygan[ruhnygaan]
should, had better
bookmarkrunyrezh[ruhnyrehzh]
help (someone) regain his soul through a traditional ceremony
bookmarkrunyses[ruhnysèe’s]
shake (something)
bookmarkrunytocar[ruhnytocaar]
be assigned to (a job)
bookmarkruxna[ru’x:nnaàa’]
get married, marry (someone)
bookmarkruyu[ru’yu’uh]
1. doorway of a house 2. in front of the house, in the doorway of the house
bookmarkrxi[rxìi’ih]
spill (a liquid)
bookmarkryal[ryàa’ll]
lose his or her oul through a serious fright (a susto)
bookmarkryal[ryàall]
shoud, deserve to, should get a turn to
bookmarkryalaz[ryalààa’z]
1. forget, forget something 2. forget, forget about (something)
bookmarkryan[ryàa’an]
1. stay in, stay at (a place) 2. remain
bookmarkryeizy[ryèi’zy]
digest
bookmarkryengw[rye’enngw]
gringo (Anglo, white person from the United States or possibly Europe)
bookmarkryu[ryu’uh]
enter, go to (college, for example)
bookmarkryub[ryùùu’b]
hurt, ache
bookmarkRyulaz Lia Zhuan rau gyixëny.
Ryulazu rau btsë, e?
Do you like to eat tuna?
bookmarkryuti[ryutìi]
go (into), enter
bookmarkryuti lany[ryu’tìià làa’any]
enter (somewhere), go into (a place)
bookmarkryux[ryùu’ux]
get old
bookmarkrzac[rzahc]
rzeby[rzèeby]
put (something) in (a location)
bookmarkrzeiby[rzèè’iby]
rzenygaza[rzehnnygahza’]
arrive right then
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Dictionary produced by Brook Lillehaugen, with support from K. David Harrison and Jeremy Fahringer.
Supported in part with funding from a NSF REU Site grant (PI Harrison, Building Digital Tools to Support Endangered Languages and Preserve Environmental Knowledge in Mexico, Micronesia, and Navajo Nation, Award #1461056).
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Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle, Felipe H. Lopez, Pamela Munro, with Savita M. Deo, Graham Mauro, and Saul Ontiveros. 2019.
San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Talking Dictionary, version 2.0. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages.
http://www.talkingdictionary.org/sanlucasquiavini
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