Details
General
| Morphemic form: | *{-uq}N |
| New orthography: | +tooq, -tooq, +sooq, -sooq |
| Old orthography: | -tôĸ, -sôĸ |
| Sources: | [14, 8] |
| Combinations: | Click here |
| Constituents: | *{-Vq}V, V{ðuq}N, |
| Left sandhi: | Truncative,
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| Right sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Stem type: | Weak q-stem |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This morpheme appears to be an uq-participle form of the verbalisation of the equative case ending N{tut}, i.e., -toorpoq, -soorpoq, cf. the generic case verbalising declitic *{-Vq}V. The meaning is as expected: 'one that is/behaves as N'.
With languages formed from N + the equative ending N{tut}, the meaning becomes 'something in the language N-tut'. Compare e.g.
- Kalaallisut, 'Greenlandic'.
- Kalaallisoorpoq, 'he is speaking Greenlandic'.
- Kalaallisooq, 'something in Greenlandic'.
Meanings and examples
With languages formed from N + the equative ending N{tut}, the meaning becomes 'something in the language N-tut'.
- itsartooq, old-fashioned
[14]
From itsaq, 'in the old days'.
- kalattooq, a Greenlandic type of dance/polka
[14]
From kalak, a word commonly used to refer to a stereotypically old-fashioned Greenlander.
- Kunuutitooq, an impression of Kunuut
[14]
Kunuut is a name, a Greenlandized version of Danish Knud.
- qangatooq, as in the old days
[14]
From qanga, referring to the past.
- kalaallisooq, something in Greenlandic
[14]
From kalaallisut, the equative form of kalaaleq, 'Greenlander'.
- noorlersooq, something in German
[14]
From noorlersut, 'German', from noorleq, literally 'outermost tip of the promontory', because this is where the German missionaries in Nuuk established Neu Herrnhut.
- tuluttooq, something in English
From tuluttut, 'English', from tuluk, 'Englishman'.