Details

General

Morphemic form: N{-lirutə}N
New orthography: -lerut
Old orthography: -lerut
Combinations: Click here
Constituents: N{-lirə}V, V{-(cc)utə}N,
Variants: N{-lirəccutə}N,
Left sandhi:
Truncative,
Replacive,
Right sandhi:
Default/none,
Inflection sandhi:
Default/none,
Stem type: tə-stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is an irregularly formed combination of N{-lirə}V, 'Actor works with N' and V{-(cc)utə}N, 'tool/means to Vb', where it appears that /ə/ has been dropped and replaced ny /utə/. Note also the regularly formed variant N{-lirəccutə}N with seemingly the same meaning.


Left sandhi:

Left sandhi is inherited from the left-most component, N{-lirə}V. See this for details.


Meanings and examples

  • ukkusissalerut, tool to carve soap stone
    [4]

    From ukkusissaq, 'soap stone'.


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