Details

General

Morphemic form: N{-liaq}N
New orthography: -liaq
Old orthography: -liaĸ, -iaĸ
Combinations: Click here
Variants: N{-liaq}V,
Left sandhi:
Truncative,
/VC/ deleting,
Right sandhi:
Default/none,
Inflection sandhi:
Default/none,
Stem type: Weak q-stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is a nominal variant of N{-liaq}V, meaning 'traveller to N'.


Left sandhi:

The affix is truncative. However, the old orthography form -iarpoĸ suggests that this affix can also show /VC/ deletion similar to the verbal variant N{-liaq}V.


Inflection

Declension pattern
Declension type: p-declined
Declension sandhi: Default/none

Stem before consonant Stem before vowel Notable forms
New orthography -lia -lia
-liaq
-liap
-liat
Phonemic orthography -lia -lia
-liaq
-liap
-liat

Notes on declension:

Note that unlike the affix N{-lijaq}N, which will look similar to this affix in the new orthography, this affix does not have gemination.


Meanings and examples

Usually with the name of a country or city, but not necessarily.

  • Paamiuliat, those who travel to Paamiut
    [4]

  • umiarssuit Amerikaliat, a ship bound for America
    [4]

    Here in plural, using the old convention of treating means of transportation as plural. Nowadays umiarsuaq Ameerikaliaq would probably be used instead.

  • manniliaq, one who is out collecting eggs
    [4]

    From mannik, 'egg'.

  • eqalliat, arctic char fishers
    [4]

    From eqaluk. Here the affix deleted the final /uk/ from the stem, which caused compensatory gemination of /l/ ⇒ [ɬɬ] in the stem.


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