Details
General
| Morphemic form: | {quŋijaq}N |
| New orthography: | qungiaq, qungissat |
| Old orthography: | ĸungiaĸ, ĸungíssat |
| Sources: | [] |
| Combinations: | View list |
| Right sandhi: | Default/none |
| Inflection sandhi: | Geminating |
| Stem type(s): | Weak q-stem |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
Kleinschmidt [13] and Schultz-Lorentzen [16] record this stem as denoting 'crack' or 'fracture' in some material, e.g. wood, walrus tooth, bone etc. They view the stem as derived from {qupə}V, 'to split', but they do not explain how. The stem is not recorded in the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [21], so whether this hypothesis is correct is unknown.
Newer dictionaries, such as Oqaatsit [19], do not record this stem (and Kleinschmidt notes it as 'provincial'), so it is presumably not used productively nowadays.
Inflection
Declension pattern:
| Stem type: | Weak q-stem |
| Declension type: | p-declined |
| Declension sandhi: | Geminating |
| Gemination type: | j⇒cc |
| Stem before consonant | Stem before vowel | Notable forms | |
|---|---|---|---|
| New orthography | qungissa | qungia | qungiaq, qungissap, qungissat, |
| Old orthography | ĸungíssa | ĸungia | ĸungiaĸ, ĸungíssap, ĸungíssat, |
| Phonemic orthography | quŋijja | quŋija | quŋijaq, quŋijjap, quŋijjat, |
Meanings and examples
In wood, bone, etc.