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Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This stem denotes a roof-beam in an old, Greenlandic house; according to Kleinschmidt [13] especially the smaller beams that go from the wall and up to the main beam. This stem was written âveĸ in the old orthography, whereas auveĸ was used for {aivəq}N, 'walrus'. There may have been some confusion between these two stems.

Inflection sandhi:

The stem declines with metathesis according to Kleinschmidt [13], Schultz-Lorentzen [8] and Ordbogeeraq [17]. There are two variants of this declension: the metathesised consonant cluster /qv/ can be realised as either [χχ] or [ff], i.e. -rr- and -rf-. The first is actually just ə-drop and assimilation of /vq/ to /rr/, the latter is true metathesis. However, the forms with [ff] may be preferred today; maybe to distinguish this stem from {aivəq}N.

Inflection

Declension pattern:

Notes on declension:

This declension may alternatively be viewed as simply a drop of /ə/, and with assimilation of /vq/ to /rr/, with /q/ weakened to /r/.

Declension pattern:

Notes on declension:

This declension is true metathesis, where /vəq/ becomes /qv/ with drop of /ə/.

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