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General

Morphemic form: {pujuqðuliiraq}N
New orthography: pujortuleeraq, pujortuleeqqat
Old orthography: pujortulêraĸ, pujortulêrĸat
Sources: [JP67], [CWSL58], [CBBJRPIKJR97]
Combinations: View list
Constituents: {pujuq}V + V{ðuq}N + N{-lək}N + N{-Vraq}N
Right sandhi: Default/none
Inflection sandhi: Weak stem, Geminating, p-declined, r⇒qq
Stem type: q-stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

The meaning of this stem is 'motorboat'. It first appears in the dictionary of Schultz-Lorentzen [CWSL58], but not in older dictionaries.

The stem is constructed from {pujuq}V + V{ðuq}N + N{-lək}N + N{-Vraq}N, so the literal meaning is 'a small one that it is equipped with something that smokes', i.e. referring to the engine (in contrast to the kayaks and umiaqs that Greenlanders previously used, i.e. manually rowed boats).

Note that the /V/ in N{-Vraq}N represents a lengthening of the vowel sound in the preceding stem. Thus, even though the vowel phoneme in N{-lək}N actually is /ə/, it takes the sound [i], and it is therefore this sound that is lengthened. Thus, we write the lengthened vowel as /ii/ in the morphemic form of the present stem, because /əə/ would yield the wrong result according to the sound rules today.


Inflection sandhi:

Inflection sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, N{-Vraq}N. See this for details.


Meanings and examples

Tags: Vehicle


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