Details
General
| Morphemic form: | N{təq}V (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | +terpaa |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | təʀ- |
| Variants: | V{təq}V |
| Morpheme type: | Verbaliser |
| Left sandhi: | Default (additive, epenthetic or phonotactically truncative) |
| Right sandhi: | None |
Description
Form and usage:
This affix is a verbalising variant of the verbal affix V{təq}V. Their meanings seem to be only vaguely related (smearing something with N is presumably done gradually/in stages), but historically they derive from the same morpheme.
When this affix is followed by a vowel-initial affix (most notably V{-utə}N or V{-ut(ə)}V), it will not be able to delete the final /q/ and expose the /ə/. Thus, this combination will yield
- N{təq}V{-utə}N ⇒ /tərutə/ ⇒ -terut
similar to how a nominal strong q-stem would behave. Likewise, this affix uses the {-i} variant of the HTR-morpheme {ði} as usual with a q-stem, but this too will not remove the final /q/, but instead weaken it to /r/, so we obtain the HTR-form /təri/.
Verb stem
| Right sandhi: | Regular |
| Valency: | Divalent (valency 2) |
| Diathesis: | Reflexive/reciprocal (BP) |
| HTR-morpheme: | {ði} |
| HTR-stem: | N{təri}V |
Meaning(s)
| Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
Agent smears Patient with N |
Or 'covers, sprinkles' etc. | Examples |