Details
General
| Morphemic form: | {aqagu}N |
| New orthography: | aqagu |
| Old orthography: | aĸago |
| Sources: | [SK71], [JP67], [CWSL58], [CBBJRPIKJR97] |
| Combinations: | View list |
| Constituents: | {?} + N{-gu}N |
| Right sandhi: | Default/none |
| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none, p-declined |
| Stem type: | Vowel stem |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
The meaning of this stem is 'the day after', either relative to the present moment, or relative to the time of the discourse. Hence, it can often be translated as 'tomorrow'.
The Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [MFSJLK10] gives no hint as to what the base of this stem is, but the second component is N{-gu}N. Like that morpheme, the present stem is also rarely extended with other affixes or used with case endings, except in some fixed expressions.
Note that when this base is used in the locative case, it is always used with a 3sg/sg possessive ending, i.e. aqaguani. The possessor is not specified, but it is probably implied to be ullup, i.e. 'the day's day-after'.
Meanings and examples
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References
- [SK71] Samuel Kleinschmidt (1871): Den grønlandske Ordbog.
- [JP67] Jonathan Petersen (1967): Ordbogêraĸ.
- [CWSL58] C.W. Schultz-Lorentzen (1958): Den Grønlandske Ordbog.
- [CBBJRPIKJR97] Christian Berthelsen, Birgitte Jakobsen, Robert Petersen, Inge Kleivan & Jørgen Rischel (1997): Oqaatsit.
- [MFSJLK10] Michael Fortescue, Steven Jacobson, Lawrence Kaplan (2010): Comparative Eskimo Dictionary (2ED).