Details

General

Morphemic form: {ui}N
New orthography: ui, uit
Old orthography: ue, uit
Sources: [MFSJLK10], [SK71], [JP67], [CWSL58], [CBBJRPIKJR97]
Combinations: View list
Right sandhi: Default/none
Inflection sandhi: p-declined
Stem type: Vowel stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

The meaning of this stem is 'husband'. According to Kleinschmidt [SK71], it may rarely also be used in the sense of 'mate' of a female animal.

Note that that in the old orthography, this stem is spelt uve. According to the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [MFSJLK10], the historical, reconstructed form of this stem is {ugi}, so the 'v' may be a representation of this /g/. However, there does not seem to be cases where this 'v' appears, even when a geminating affix or ending is added. Therefore, we do not record it as part of the morphemic form here.


Inflection

Inflection pattern:

Stem type: Vowel stem
Inflection sandhi: p-declined
Sources: [JP67]

Notes on inflection:

The stem inflects as an ordinary vowel stem with p-declension. As this is entirely regular, we do not record a full inflection paradigm here.


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