Details
General
| Morphemic form: | {aavəq}N (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | aaveq |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | ayvəʀ |
| Morpheme type: | Noun base |
| Right sandhi: | None |
Description
Form and usage:
This stem was written auveĸ in the old orthography, but this seems to be spurious, maybe due to a confusion with {auvəq}N, to which it is not at all related, according to Fortescue et al. (2010).
Declension information
| Stem type: | Strong q-stem |
| Declension type: | up-declined |
| Declension sandhi: | Metathesis |
| ABS.sg | ERG.sg | ERG.pl | ALL.sg | ABS.3sg/sg | Special forms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New orthography | aaveq | aarrup | aarrit | aavermut | aarra | |
| New orthography | aaveq | aarfup | aarfit | aavermut | aarra | |
| Phonemic notation | aavəq | aaqvup | aaqvit | aavəqmut | aaqva |
The stem displays metathesis, where the metathesised consonant cluster /qv/ can be realised as either [ff] or [χχ]. However, the forms with [χχ] seem to be the preferred for possessive endings.
Meaning(s)
| Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| walrus |