Details

General

Morphemic form: N{-vik}N
New orthography: -vik
Old orthography: -vik
Combinations: Click here
Variants: V{-vik}V,
Left sandhi:
Truncative,
Right sandhi:
Assibilation (t⇒s),
Inflection sandhi:
Default/none,
Stem type: Regular k-stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This affix also has a verbal variant, V{-vik}V.


Inflection

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

Stem before consonant Stem before vowel Notable forms
New orthography -vik -vi
-vik
-viup
-viit
Phonemic orthography -vik -vi
-vik
-viup
-viit


Meanings and examples

  • angutivik, a real man

    From angut, 'man'.

  • ativik, real name (given name)

    From ateq, 'name'.


References