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TAK TʽAK TAM TʽAM TAN

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To wait on; prepare; provide.
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Great; extensive; name of a hill; the imperial altar.
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Slippery; waters rushing over and washing away; excess.
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External manifestation of the thoughts and feelings by the gait and manner; behavior; treatment.

Ták.

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To measure; estimate; reckon.
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Poison; poisonous; bad; malignity; noxious; vicious.

Tʽák.

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To read; study; recite.
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Name of a river; waters rushing together.
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Eminent; to exceed; excess; profligate.
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To take up; lift or receive with the hand; push; break.
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A knocker; that on which a watchman strikes.

Tám.

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Addicted to pleasure; excessive indulgence; to linger; tarry.
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Young sprouts or rushes; green color.
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To taste; eat; swallow; entice with a bait; insipid.

Tʽám.

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Phlegm; mucous.
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Free conversation; chitchat; to converse; dispute.
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Extending to; spreading out far and wide.
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Name of a river; deep.
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Appearance of water, tranquil and sometimes agitated.
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Verbose; loquacity.
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To covet; desire; encroach upon the property of another; avaricious.
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Sharp; pointed; to sharpen; cut off.
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To feel or search for; to spy; to visit and make enquiries about.

Tán.

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Carnation color; of but one color; simple; pure.
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The banks of a canal or river.
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Joy; rejoicing; fullness; abundance.
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Disease arising from excessive labor; yellow jaundice.
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A small bucket to carry provisions in.
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Distress; afraid; worn out with fatigue; idle.
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Fables; nonsense; to deceive; extensive; a birth-day.