Details
General
| Morphemic form: | N{-lək}N |
| New orthography: | -lik |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | ləɣ |
| Morpheme type: | Nominal modifier |
| Left sandhi: | Sandhi-truncative |
| Right sandhi: | None |
Description
Form:
This is a very common affix, used in many constructions. Like a handful of other stems ending in /ək/, it displays a limited form of metathesis, but only in the grammatical cases, where it takes N{-ip} and N{-it}. Apart from this, it declines like a regular k-stem. This peculiar behaviour is then of course inherited by all stems formed with this affix.
As with the other stems in /ək/, this stem probably originally displayed true methasis and took the N{-up} ending in ergative singular; i.e. /-klup/, /-klit/, /-kla/ etc. (i.e. -llup, -llit, -lla in the new orthography).
Noun stem
| Stem type: | Regular k-stem |
| Declension type: | ip-declined |
| Declension sandhi: | Limited metathesis (only in ERG.sg and pl) |
| ABS.sg | ERG.sg | ERG.pl | ALL.sg | ABS.3sg/sg | Special forms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New orthography | -lik | -llip | -llit | -limmut | -lia | |
| Phonemic notation | -lək | -klip | -klit | -likmut | -ləa |
Meaning(s)
| Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| one equipped with N | This affix is semantically equivalent to the combination N{-qaq}V{ðuq}N, i.e. 'one/something who has N'. | Examples |