Details
General
| Morphemic form: | {sisə}N |
| New orthography: | sisi, sisit |
| Old orthography: | sise, sisit |
| Sources: | [SK71], [JP67], [CWSL58], [CBBJRPIKJR97] |
| Combinations: | View list |
| Right sandhi: | Default/none |
| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none, p-declined |
| Stem type: | ə-stem |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
The meaning of this stem is 'foxhole', 'fox den' etc.
Right sandhi:
It is unclear from the dictionaries and available examples, whether the final /ə/ alternates with [a] if followed by a vowel.
Inflection
Inflection pattern:
| Stem type: | ə-stem |
| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none, p-declined |
| Sources: | [JP67] |
Notes on inflection:
The stem inflects as an ordinary vowel with p-declension. As this is entirely regular, we do not record a full inflection paradigm here.
Meanings and examples
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Tags
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.