Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{galuaq}N |
| New orthography: | -gigalui, -ugaluaq |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | ɣaluaq- |
| Morpheme type: | Nominaliser |
| Left sandhi: | Default (additive, epenthetic or phonotactically truncative) |
| Right sandhi: | aq-dropping |
Description
Form:
This affix is only used after N{-u}V 'is' and N{-gə}V 'have as'. When following N{-u}V, it never takes possessive endings. Conversely, when following N{-gə}V, it is only used with possessive endings.
Noun stem
| Stem type: | Weak q-stem |
| Declension type: | up-declined |
| Declension sandhi: | Regular |
| ABS.sg | ERG.sg | ERG.pl | ALL.sg | ABS.3sg/sg | Special forms |
| New orthography |
+galuaq |
+galuup |
+galuit |
+galuamut |
+galua |
|
Notes on declension:
The stem declines regularly as a weak q-stem with consonant-initial endings, but with drop of /aq/ before vowel-initial endings. Furthermore, this stem is up-declined, which thus also causes /aq/ to drop. In other words, with consonant-initial endings, it behaves like a weak q-stem, but with vowel-initial endings it behaves like a pseudo-q-stem {galuk}. Very few other stems decline in this peculiar way: most notably N{(q)cuaq}N and N{ŋŋuaq}N.
Meaning(s)
| Meaning |
Notes |
|
| former N |
where N here refers to the noun stem incorporated by either N{-u}V or N{-gə}V. |
Examples |