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General

Morphemic form: V{-qatə}N
New orthography: -qat
Old orthography: -ĸat
Combinations: Click here
Variants: N{-qatə}N,
Left sandhi:
Truncative,
Right sandhi:
Default/none,
Inflection sandhi:
Default/none,
Stem type: tə-stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This affix denotes 'a fellow Vb'er', or 'fellow in Vb'ing', 'co-Vb'er', 'one with whom you Vb', and similar. It also has a variant that attaches to nominal bases, N{-qatə}N, with the same meaning: 'a fellow N'. They are often combined with affixes N{-gə}V and N{-giik}V to express 'Vb'ing together with'.


Inflection

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

Stem before consonant Stem before vowel Notable forms
New orthography -qati -qata
-qat
-qatip
-qatit
Phonemic orthography -qatə -qatə
-qatə
-qatəp
-qatət


Meanings and examples

or fellow in Vb'ing, co-Vb'er, one with whom you Vb, etc.

  • suleqat, colleague/co-worker

    From {suli}V, 'to work', so literally 'one with whom (you) work'.

  • angeqataa, someone who is as big as him
    [4]

    I.e., 'his equal' (in size), from angivoq, 'he is big', so literally 'his fellow in being big'.


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