Details
General
| Morphemic form: | N{ŋŋiq}V (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | -nngerpoq |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | ŋŋiq- |
| Morpheme type: | Verbaliser |
| Left sandhi: | Default (additive, epenthetic or phonotactically truncative) |
| Right sandhi: | Assibilation |
Description
Left sandhi:
One of the examples given in Schultz-Lorentzen (1958) for this affix is angutángerpoĸ (new orthography angutanngerpoq), from {aŋutə}N, 'man', suggesting the affix should cause /ə/ to take the sound [a].
This can in some cases happen, e.g. if an affix causes gemination in the stem.
However, there is nothing otherwise to suggest that this affix should have any special left-sandhi behaviour, and no other examples of this behaviour is attested elsewhere.
Thus, this is presumably either an error, or an irregular construction (which is not lexicalised/attested in the DAKA dictionary).
Therefore, the regular construction angutinngerpoq should be assumed to be the correct one nowadays.
Verb stem
| Right sandhi: | Regular |
| Valency: | Monovalent (valency 1) |
| Diathesis: | Subjective (intransitive) |
Meaning(s)
| Meaning |
Notes |
|
Actor craves N |
Or 'is crazy about' etc. It is mostly used with food/drinks (in the sense 'crave to consume'), although there are also a few examples with non-food. |
Examples |