Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{-utə}N |
| New orthography: | -ut |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | -un |
| Variants: | V{ccutə}N, V{'-tə}N, V{sautə}N |
| 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 | |
| Phonemic notation | -utə | -utəp | -utət | -utəmut | -utəa |
Meaning(s)
| Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| tool/means for Vb'ing | Examples |