Details
General
| Morphemic form: | N{-Vraq}N (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | -eraq, -oraq |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | ʀaʀ |
| Variants: |
N{-araq}N
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| Morpheme type: | Nominal modifier |
| Left sandhi: | Special (see description) |
| Right sandhi: | None |
Description
Form and usage:
This is a mostly non-productive morpheme, which is found in some lexicalised words. It is a variant of the productive N{-araq}N
Left sandhi:
The affix is truncative. /V/ represents a lengthening of the preceding vowel sound; i.e. even if this vowel is a /ə/, which has taken the sound [i], the result will be [ii], which will then be uvularised to [ɜɜ].
Declension information
| Stem type: | Weak q-stem |
| Declension type: | p-declined |
| Declension sandhi: | Gemination |
| Gemination type: | /r/ => /qq/ |
| ABS.sg | ERG.sg | ERG.pl | ALL.sg | ABS.3sg/sg | Special forms |
| New orthography |
-eraq |
-eqqap |
-eqqat |
-eqqamut |
-eraa |
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| New orthography |
-oraq |
-oqqap |
-oqqat |
-oqqamut |
-oraa |
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| Phonemic notation |
-Vraq |
-Vrrap |
-Vrrat |
-Vrramut |
-Vraa |
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Meaning(s)