Details
General
| Morphemic form: | N{-kitliuq}V |
| New orthography: | -killiorpoq |
| Old orthography: | -kitdliorpoĸ |
| Sources: | [19, 16, 11] |
| Combinations: | View list |
| Constituents: | N{-kitli}V + V{-uq}V |
| Left sandhi: | Truncative |
| Right sandhi: | Default/none |
| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none |
| Stem type: | q-stem |
| Diathesis: | Subjective |
| Valency: | Preserving, Monovalent |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
Lexicalised combination of N{-kitli}V, and the non-productive morpheme V{-uq}V.
Meanings and examples
- aakilliorpoq, he has anaemia
From aak, 'blood', literally 'he has too little blood'.
- akissaatikilliorpoq, he is underpaid
Literally 'he has too little salary'.
- inikilliorpoq, he has too little space
From ini, 'room' or '(living) space'.
- nerisakilliorpoq, he doesn't get enough to eat
From nerisaq, 'something eaten' (i.e., eaten food), literally 'he has too little (eaten) food'.
- silakilliorpoq, he behaves foolishly
From sila, here in the sense of 'intellect'.
- sannatikilliorpoq, he has too few work tools
From sannat, 'tool'.
- ikiortikilliornermit, because of too few helpers
[16]
From ikiorti, 'helper' and using the construction V{nəq}N + ablative singular N{mət} to express 'because of'.