Details
General
Morphemic form: | V{-utə}N |
New orthography: | -ut |
Proto-eskimoic root: | -un |
Variants: |
V{ccutə}N, V{'-tə}N, V{sautə}N
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Morpheme type: | Nominaliser |
Left sandhi: | Sandhi-truncative |
Right sandhi: | None |
Description
Left sandhi:
This affix may cause a stem-final /aq/ to drop. Furthermore, the variant form V{ccutə}N may also be used in the same sense as this affix when following a (long?) vowel. It is not clear exactly when this happens, but it may be simply an alternative to injecting an epenthetic /j/ when required by phonotactics (which does not seem to be used). In that case, this affix could be described as injecting /cc/ rather than /j/ with phonotactic epenthesis.
According to the CED; this may also happen on t-stems, but I have not found any examples attesting this.
Note also that this affix will not remove a final /q/, but rather weaken it to /r/, if the stem ends in /əq/.
This may also happen, if the stem ends in /VVq/, and thus be an alternative to injecting /cc/.
Noun stem
Stem type: | tə-stem |
Declension type: | p-declined |
Declension sandhi: | Regular |
| ABS.sg | ERG.sg | ERG.pl | ALL.sg | ABS.3sg/sg | Special forms |
New orthography |
-ut |
-utip |
-utit |
-utimut |
-utaa |
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Phonemic notation |
-utə |
-utəp |
-utət |
-utəmut |
-utəa |
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Meaning(s)
Meaning |
Notes |
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tool/means for Vb'ing |
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Examples |