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General


Morphemic form: {isə}N
New orthography: isi
Proto-eskimoic root: itəɣ
Morpheme type: Noun base
Right sandhi: None

Description


Form:

In modern day, there may be some confusion between {əcə}N (eye), {əci}N (drum skin) and {isə}N (boot tip), since all three forms have fallen together into just one, isi, in the New Orthography. You may therefore hear both e.g. isia and isaa for absolutive 3.sg/sg N{-a}. Some of the confusion was present already in the Old Orthography, where {əcə}N isse could be distinguished from ise, but the latter could be either {əsi}N or {isə}N, because the Old Orthography did not distinguish between /ə/ and true /i/. Only in the etymological orthography of the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary can we distinguish all three:


Noun stem


Stem type: ə-stem (vowel stem)
Declension type: p-declined
Declension sandhi: Regular
ABS.sg ERG.sg ERG.pl ALL.sg ABS.3sg/sg Special forms
New orthography isi isip isit isimut isaa
Phonemic notation isə isəp isət isəmut isəa

Meaning(s)


Meaning Notes
boot tip