Details

General

Morphemic form: N{-qatə}N
New orthography: -qat
Old orthography: -ĸat
Combinations: Click here
Variants: V{-qatə}N,
Left sandhi:
Truncative,
Right sandhi:
Default/none,
Inflection sandhi:
Default/none,
Stem type: tə-stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This affix denotes 'a fellow N'. It also has a variant that attaches to verbal bases, V{-qatə}N, with the same meaning: 'a fellow Vb'er'. They are often combined with affixes N{-gə}V and N{-giik}V to express 'Vb'ing together with'.


Inflection

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

Stem before consonant Stem before vowel Notable forms
New orthography -qati -qata
-qat
-qatip
-qatit
Phonemic orthography -qatə -qatə
-qatə
-qatəp
-qatət


Meanings and examples

  • anguteqat, a fellow man
    [8]

    Assuming the speaker himself is a man.

  • ineqat, flat mate
    [8]

    From {inə}N, 'room'.

  • inoqat, fellow human being
    [8]


References