Details
General
| Morphemic form: | {aqviqsanələk}N |
| New orthography: | arfersanillit |
| Old orthography: | arfersanigdlit |
| Sources: | [10, 13, 16] |
| Combinations: | Click here |
| Constituents: | {aqviqsanəq}N, N{-lək}N, |
| Right sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Inflection sandhi: | Limited metathesis,
Metathesis,
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| Stem type: | Regular k-stem |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This stem is a combination of {aqviqsanəq}N + N{-lək}N. It denotes the quantity sixteen, which is used whenever one is speaking of a quantity of sixteen items. For the numeral, see {aqviqsanəq}N.
This quantity is naturally plural, so it is only used with plural endings. Note that, since the final component is N{-lək}N, which has limited metathesis in the grammatical cases, the plural form in the prepositional cases changes quite a bit. Thus for example in the instrumental case: arfersanilinnik.
Inflection sandhi:
Inflection sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, N{-lək}N. See this for details.
Meanings and examples
The quantity is plural and is used with plural endings.
- arfersanilinnik ukioqarpoq, he is sixteen years old
- ukiut arfersanillit, sixteen years