Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{ðuq}N (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | +toq, +soq, -tsoq |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | ðuʀ, tuʀ |
| 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 monovalent stems that represent the Actor role of the verbal action.
It can perhaps be compared to the suffix -er, -or in English (compare e.g. English worker, painter, builder, visitor etc.).
This morpheme is actually the same as the intransitive participial mood marker {ðu}, but here declined as a noun (weak q-stem), rather than conjugated as a verb.
On old t-stems, this affix (usually) attaches to /t/ without assimilating it. This is especially the case with all verb stems formed with V{ŋŋit}V, N{-it}V and V{-it}V. Thus e.g. with V{ŋŋit}V, the combination yields
- V{ŋŋit}V{ðuq}N ⇒ -nngitsoq
similar to the mood marker for intransitive participial mood (since it really is the same morpheme).
Declension information
| Stem type: | Weak q-stem |
| Declension type: | p-declined |
| Declension sandhi: | Regular |
| ABS.sg | ERG.sg | ERG.pl | ALL.sg | ABS.3sg/sg | Special forms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New orthography | +toq | +tup | +tut | +tumut | +tua | |
| Phonemic notation | ðuq | ðup | ðut | ðumut | ðua |
Meaning(s)
| Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| One who/that Vb (intransitive participle). | Or 'a Vb'er '. | Examples |