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General

Morphemic form: {suuq}
New orthography: sooq
Old orthography: sôĸ
Sources: [13, 17, 16, 19]
Combinations: View list
Constituents: {su}V + V{ðuq}N

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This stem appears to be a combination of the pro-base {su}V and the intransitive participle V{ðuq}N, here behaving as an uq-participle, even though this base normally forms its intransitive participle in the regular way. The meaning is simply 'why', and despite its origin as a noun stem, it behaves as a particle; i.e. it is not inflected.


Meanings and examples

  • soorunami paasisinnaanngilaat sooq uanga taamak ungasitsigisumut aallarusuppunga, of course they could not understand why I wanted to travel to something as distant as that [5]

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