aijak

ko-a (transitive verb) to open with difficulty; to take off a thing stuck to something else (like taking off a stamp from a letter or open a lid of a box nailed down); to help deliver (a child or calf) at difficult birth. aijak akituk: to open the mouth when lips are parched with thirst or when jaws are swollen; to press down bottom jaw. ajakit akure: throat dried up, difficult to swallow, hence to be thirsty. ajakit eong itaok: I helped at the birth of calf by pulling it out. ajak ngesi akanin nuka lokatwan: she/he separated the clasped hands of a dead man. kajakit eong eibel loka akiring: I want to satisfy or to relieve the longing for meat. aijak anyakaeta: to be exhausted (with jaws hanging).