Details
General
| Morphemic form: | N{tuuma}V |
| New orthography: | +tuumavoq |
| Old orthography: | -tuumavoĸ |
| Sources: | [18, 21, 11] |
| Combinations: | View list |
| Constituents: | N{tuq}V + V{-uma}V |
| Left sandhi: | Default |
| Right sandhi: | Default/none |
| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none |
| Stem type: | Vowel stem |
| Diathesis: | Subjective |
| Valency: | Preserving, Monovalent |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This affix is a combination of N{tuq}V, 'Actor consumes/uses N' and V{-uma}V, 'often'.
The combination is mentioned in Fortescue's Manual of Affixes [18] and in the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [21], where they translate it as 'use/consume often; likes to use/consume'.
However, it does not have a separate entry in any of the other dictionaries.
Hence, it is likely not used productively.
Meanings and examples
- inuttuumasoq, cannibal
[13]
From inuk, 'human' and with intransitive participle V{ðuq}N, so literally 'one who often/likes to consume humans'. The example is given both in Kleinschmidt (1871) and Schultz-Lorentzen (1958) under -mavoĸ.