Details
General
| Morphemic form: | N{saqnəq}N |
| New orthography: | +sarneq |
| Old orthography: | -sarneĸ |
| Sources: | [10, 12, 11] |
| Combinations: | Click here |
| Constituents: | ?, V{nəq}N, |
| Variants: | N{saqnəq}V, |
| Left sandhi: | Default,
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| Right sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Inflection sandhi: | Weakening,
Metathesis,
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| Stem type: | Strong q-stem |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This is a non-productive morpheme found in a number of lexicalised names for winds. According to Schultz-Lorentzen [11], it denotes 'wind from N', although it appears in some cases to also have been attaches to verbal bases, and even demonstrative bases. It can also be verbalised, in the sense of 'there blows a wind from N', see N{saqnəq}V.
Right sandhi:
Right sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, V{nəq}N. See this for details.
Inflection sandhi:
Inflection sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, V{nəq}N. See this for details.
Meanings and examples
All the following examples are lexicalised.
- qoororsarneq, wind from the valley
[11]
From qooroq, 'valley'.
- nunasarneq, wind from the land
[11]
From nuna, 'land'.
- ullaarsarneq, morning wind
[11]
From ullaaq, 'morning'
- isersarneq, wind into the fjord
[11]
From the verbal base iser-, 'enter'?
- anisarneq, wind out of the fjord
[11]
From the verbal base ani-, 'exit'?
- kuussarneq, wind from the water stream
[10]
From kuuk, 'water stream'.
- samanngarsarneq, wind from the west
[10]
From samannga, adverbial allative form of the demonstrative root {sam}, here apparently treated as a nominal stem with an injected /q/.