Details
General
| Morphemic form: | N{-lirətuuq}N |
| New orthography: | -leritooq |
| Old orthography: | -leritôĸ |
| Sources: | [14, 8] |
| Combinations: | Click here |
| Constituents: | N{-lirə}V, V{tu}V, V{ðuq}N, |
| Left sandhi: | Truncative,
Replacive,
/VC/ deleting,
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| Right sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Stem type: | Weak q-stem |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This affix is a combination of N{-lirə}V, 'work with N', and the non-productive affix V{tu}V, 'is highly inclined to', which takes its intransitive participle as /uq/, i.e. +tooq instead of the normal, expectable +tusoq. The combination thus denotes 'one who is highly inclined to work with/be concerned with N'. This can also be rendered as 'one who really likes N', or even, in cases where N is a nominalised verb stem, as 'one who really likes to Vb'.
Left sandhi:
Left sandhi is inherited from the left-most component, N{-lirə}V. See this for details.
Meanings and examples
This can also be: 'one who really likes N'.
- oqaasileritooq, linguist
[8]
From oqaaseq, 'word', so literally: 'one who is highly inclined to work with words'.
- atuakkeritooq, book-worm; one who really likes books
[14]
From atuagaq, 'book', with drop of the final /VC/ and compensatory gemination of /g/ to [kk].
- sinneritooq, sleepy-head; one who really likes to sleep
[14]
From sinik, 'sleep', with drop of the final /VC/ and compensatory gemination of /n/ to /nn/.
- nerreritooq, foodie; one who really likes food/to eat
[14]
From nerivoq, 'he eats'. This is irregularly formed, and the affix seems to have been added directly to the verbal stem without a nominalising affix first. As in some of the other examples, the final /VC/ is dropped, and with compensatory gemination of /r/ to /rr/.