Details

General

Morphemic form: V{ŋŋivik}V
New orthography: -nngivippoq
Old orthography: '-ngivigpoĸ
Sources: [19]
Combinations: View list
Constituents: V{ŋŋit}V + V{-vik}V
See also: V{ŋŋitluinnaq}V
Left sandhi: Default
Right sandhi: Assibilation (t⇒s)
Inflection sandhi: Default/none
Stem type: k-stem
Diathesis: None
Valency: Preserving, Preserving

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is a straightforward combination of V{ŋŋit}V, 'negation' and V{-vik}V, 'completely', giving the meaning 'not at all'. See also the reverse combination, V{-viŋŋit}V, for a different meaning. Note that although the affix is valency preserving, and hence can appear with transitive endings, there is not HTR-stem, since any HTR-morpheme would be added before this affix.


Meanings and examples

Or 'definitely not'.

  • paasinngivippara, I did not understand it at all

    From paasivara, 'I understand it'.