Details
General
| Morphemic form: | {aumaq}N |
| New orthography: | aamaq, aammat |
| Old orthography: | aumaĸ, áumat |
| Sources: | [10, 14, 5, 13, 16] |
| Combinations: | Click here |
| Right sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Inflection sandhi: | Geminating,
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| Stem type(s): |
Weak q-stem,
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Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
The basic meaning of this stems is 'glow; ember' and, from this, 'glowing coal', and, according to Kleinschmidt [10], also 'coal' in general (whether burning or not).
In older dictionaries [10, 13, 14], it is recorded as a vowel stem, auma, but in the newer dictionary Oqaatsit [16], it is only listed as a q-stem, aamaq. Therefore, we here only record it as a q-stem.
Inflection sandhi:
According to Schultz-Lorentzen [5], this stem may optionally also decline without gemination.
Inflection
Declension pattern:
| Stem type: | Weak q-stem |
| Declension type: | p-declined |
| Declension sandhi: | Geminating |
| Gemination type: | m⇒mm |
| Stem before consonant | Stem before vowel | Notable forms | |
|---|---|---|---|
| New orthography | aamma | aama |
aamaq
aammap
aammat
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| Old orthography | áuma | auma |
aumaĸ
áumap
áumat
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| Phonemic orthography | aumma | auma |
aumaq
aummap
aummat
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Meanings and examples
This meaning is only mentioned in older dictionaries [10, 13].