Details

General

Morphemic form: {uŋasik}V
New orthography: ungasippoq
Old orthography: ungasigpoĸ
Sources: [13, 19]
Combinations: View list
Constituents: {uŋa}N + N{-sik}V
Right sandhi: Assibilation (t⇒s)
Inflection sandhi: Default/none
Stem type: k-stem
Diathesis: Subjective
Valency: Monovalent, Monovalent

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

The meaning of this stem is 'Actor is distant', in a physical/spatial sense; i.e. there is a great distance between the speaker and the Subject of the sentence. It can also be used in a temporal sense, although this seems less common than the spatial sense.


Right sandhi:

Right sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, N{-sik}V. See this for details.


Meanings and examples

Usually in a spatial sense, but in some constructions it may instead be used in a temporal sense.

  • Maniitsoq ungasinngilaq, Maniitsoq is not far away [4]

    With V{ŋŋit}V.

  • miilitut ungasissigaaq, it is as distant as a mile

    Old orthography: ungasigsigaoĸ, with V{təgə}V. The example illustrates that the true /i/ in the base indeed can cause assibilation of a following /t/ to /s/ by the t-to-s rule.

  • ungasinngitsukkut, recently [19]

    From {uŋasik}V + V{ŋŋit}V + V{ðuq}N + vialis singular N{kkut} to indicate time, so literally '(via) something that is not distant (in time)'.