aijak2
verb [ transitive verb ]
ko-a
1
to open with difficulty
2
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)
3
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)
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