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General

Description and behaviour

The meaning of this base is 'the other (of Possessor)' or 'one (of Possessor) but not the other', so it denotes a choice between two parts. It is a partitive stem, like {ila}N, but one way to construe the difference is to think of {ila}N as denoting the part that is selected (from a larger whole), whereas {aqlaq}N denotes the other part; i.e. the part that was deselected.

Consider two boats with people in them. Kleinschmidt (1871) gives the following contrasting examples to illustrate the difference:

• ilavut, 'those in our own company', e.g. those in this boat.
• arlavut, 'our others', e.g. those in the other boat (but not us)

Both examples here are with the absolutive 1pl/pl ending N{-vut}, 'our Ns'. He also gives another example:

• arlassi ornilliuk,
• ilassi ornilliuk,

Both examples here use ornippaa, 'he approaches him' with the 3sg/sg optative mood ending V{liuk}, 'let him Vb it'. According to Kleinschmidt: "Both must be translated as 'let one of you go to him', but the difference is that in the former sentence, the emphasis is on one (and not the others); whereas in the latter sentence [the emphasis is on] of you."

Inflection

Declension pattern

This stem is almost always only used with possessive endings. Thus, we do not give a full declension pattern.

Meanings and examples