Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{ðə}N (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | +ti, +si |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | ðə |
| Morpheme type: | Nominaliser |
| Left sandhi: | Default (additive, epenthetic or phonotactically truncative) |
| Right sandhi: | None |
Description
Form and usage:
This affix is used to create nouns from divalent stems that represent the Agent role of the verbal action.
It can perhaps be compared to English -er, -or (compare 'teacher', 'helper', 'counsellor'), i.e. a 'Vb'er (of/for the Patient)'.
The Patient need not be specified, but can be indicated with a possessive ending.
It is not commonly used in active production today, but it can be found it in a number of lexicalised words. It seems instead to be more common to use the intransitive participle V{ðuq}N, in combination with a HTR-morpheme to reduce the valency (e.g. ilinniartitsi**soq, 'teacher', from ilinniartippaa, 'he teaches him').
Note that /ə/ always must take a sound, since if /ð/ becomes /c/ (on vowel stems), then /ə/ must take a sound since no Greenlandic word can end on the sound [c]. Likewise, if /ð/ becomes /t/ (on consonant stems), then /ə/ must again take a sound, because no Greenlandic word can end on a double consonant sound.
Declension information
| 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 | +ti | +tip | +tit | +timut | +taa | |
| Phonemic notation | ðə | ðəp | ðət | ðəmut | ðəa |
Meaning(s)
| Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
one who Vb (of/for Patient) (active participle) |
Or 'Vb'er', 'Vb'or' (of/for someone) etc. The Patient can be specified with a possessive ending. |
Examples |