Details
General
Morphemic form: | *{tuq} |
New orthography: | +toq |
Old orthography: | -toĸ |
Combinations: | Click here |
Left sandhi: | Default,
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Description and behaviour
Meanings and examples
Or 'I wish!' or 'let ...!' It may for example be used in conjunction with the optative or imperative moods.
- qanortoq, may it be that ...!
For example in the line qanortoq inuummersorit!, 'may thou live long!' of the Greenlandic birthday song Inuuissiortoq pilluarit.
- uangatoq, wish it was me (that...)!
References
- [4] C.W. Schultz-Lorentzen (1958): Den Grønlandske Ordbog.
- [8] Christian Berthelsen, Birgitte Jakobsen, Robert Petersen, Inge Kleivan & Jørgen Rischel (1997): Oqaatsit.