Details

General

Morphemic form: V{-ŋajak}N
New orthography: -ngajak
Old orthography: -ngajak
Combinations: Click here
Variants: V{-ŋajak}V, N{-ŋajak}N,
Left sandhi:
Truncative,
Right sandhi:
Default/none,
Inflection sandhi:
Default/none,
Stem type: Regular k-stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is a nominal variant of V{-ŋajak}V. It is mentioned in Schultz-Lorentzen (1958), but is probably seldom used nowadays. It seems to be semantically equivalent to the combination V{-ŋajak}V{ðuq}N, i.e. the meaning is 'something that is almost Vb'.


Inflection

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

Stem before consonant Stem before vowel Notable forms
New orthography -ngajak -ngaja
-ngajak
-ngajaap
ngajaat
Phonemic orthography -ŋajak -ŋaja
-ŋajak
-ŋajaup
-ŋajait


Meanings and examples

  • qaqungajak, almost white
    [4]

    From qaqorpoq, 'it is white'.

  • nutaangajak, almost new
    [4]

    From nutaavoq (or nutaajuvoq), 'it is new'.


References