Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{-aq}V |
| New orthography: | -arpoq |
| Old orthography: | -arpoĸ |
| Sources: | [9, 12, 14, 8] |
| Combinations: | Click here |
| See also: | V{-raq}V, V{-gaq}V, |
| 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: | q-stem |
| Diathesis: | None |
| Valency: |
Preserving,
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Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This is an old, non-productive morpheme, found in some lexicalisations. It seems to have two different meanings:
- The Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [16] relates it to an historical morpheme {aʀ-}, which denotes repeated or prolonged activity.
- Kleinschmidt [9] translates it as 'Vb a little' and relates it to V{-laaq}V and V{-luaq}V. In relation to this, Nielsen [8] adds that this meaning is with stems describing a state of being.
It is unclear these two meanings reflect that the present affix actually derives from two different, historical morphemes. Only the first meaning is mentioned in the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary, and only the second is mentioned in the other dictionaries. Here we record both as meanings of a single morpheme, since they in any case behave similarly.
Meanings and examples
This meaning is with stems describing a state of being.
- qaquarpoq, it is white-ish
[14]
From qaqorpoq, 'it is white'.
- qalaarpoq, is boiling (a bit)
[14]
From qalappoq, 'it boils' or 'it is boiled'.
- isuarpoq, it (a liquid) is a little murky
[9]
From isorpoq, 'it is murky', e.g. of waters.