Details

General

Morphemic form: N{ŋŋiq}V
New orthography: -nngerpoq
Old orthography: '-ngerpoĸ
Combinations: Click here
Left sandhi:
Default,
Right sandhi:
Default/none,
Inflection sandhi:
Default/none,
Stem type: q-stem
Diathesis: Subjective
Valency change: None
Valency:
Monovalent,

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

The meaning of this affix is 'Actor craves N' or 'Actor is crazy about N' or similar. It is mostly used with food/drinks (in the sense 'crave to consume'), although there are also a few examples with non-food.


Left sandhi:

One of the examples given in Schultz-Lorentzen (1958) for this affix is angutángerpoĸ (new orthography angutanngerpoq), from {aŋutə}N, 'man', suggesting the affix should cause /ə/ to take the sound [a]. This can in some cases happen, e.g. if an affix causes gemination in the stem. However, there is nothing otherwise to suggest that this affix should have any special left-sandhi behaviour, and no other examples of this behaviour is attested elsewhere. Thus, this is presumably either an error, or an irregular construction (which is not lexicalised/attested in the DAKA dictionary). Therefore, the regular construction angutinngerpoq should be assumed to be the correct one nowadays.


Meanings and examples

Or 'Actor is crazy about N' etc.

  • mattanngerpoq, he loves mattak
    [8]

  • orsunngerpoq, he likes blubber
    [8]

  • sukkulaatinngerpoq, he loves chocolate
    [8]

  • tiinngerpoq, he likes tea
    [8]

  • angutanngerpoq, she is crazy about men
    [4]

    Note: this example is irregularly formed, from {aŋutə}N, 'man'. Presumably, the regularly formed word angutinngerpoq would be used today.


References