Details
General
| Morphemic form: | {auvəq}N (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | aaveq |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | aʀuvəʀ(aʀ) |
| Morpheme type: | Noun base |
| Right sandhi: | None |
Description
Form and usage:
This stem was written âveĸ in the old orthography, whereas auveĸ was used for {aavəq}N, 'walrus'. There may have been some confusion between these two stems.
Declension information
| Stem type: | Strong q-stem |
| Declension type: | ip-declined |
| Declension sandhi: | Metathesis |
| ABS.sg | ERG.sg | ERG.pl | ALL.sg | ABS.3sg/sg | Special forms |
| New orthography |
aaveq |
aarfip |
aarfit |
aavermut |
aarfa |
|
| Phonemic notation |
auvəq |
auqvip |
auqvit |
aavəqmut |
aaqva |
|
Notes on declension:
The stem displays metathesis, where the metathesised consonant cluster /qv/ can be realised as either [ff] or [χχ] (the latter seemingly only with up-declension; Schultz-Lorentzen (1951) also mentions the forms ârrup, ârrit). However, the forms with [ff] may be preferred today, to distinguish this stem from {aavəq}N.
Meaning(s)