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General

Morphemic form: {əli}V
New orthography: ilivaa, ilisivoq, ilivoq
Old orthography: ilivâ, ilissivoĸ, ilivoĸ
Sources: [MFSJLK10], [SK71], [CWSL58], [JP67], [CBBJRPIKJR97]
Combinations: View list
Right sandhi: Default/none
Inflection sandhi: Default/none
Stem type: Vowel stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

According to Kleinschmidt [SK71], this stem has four different meanings. Some of them are transitive, and others are intransitive, and some are actually given separate entries, even though according to the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [MFSJLK10], they are all from the same stem. The meanings fall into two groups.

The first group
For two of the meanings, the stem is always used in conjunction with {qanuq} (how), {ima} (thus), {suuqlu} (like), or a modifier noun in the equative case (as), or with one of the adverbial modifiers ajortumik (badly) or ajunngitsumik (well). These are:

It is especially often used in the contemporative mood as a modifier of another verb. Note also that with {ima}, the particle may be contracted with the stem, such that the [a] actually assimilates the /ə/, i.e. it may be written imaali- or, with {ta(ð)}*, taamali-.

The second group
For the other two meanings, the stem is used as an ordinary, divalent verbal stem. However, the meanings seem entirely unrelated to the previous. These meanings are:

With these two meanings, the stem must be used with a HTR-morpheme to give it intransitive form.


Notable forms:

Inflection

Inflection pattern:

Stem type: Vowel stem
Inflection sandhi: Default/none


Meanings and examples

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  • qanoq ilimmat tikippisi?, you arrived when (the day) had progressed how? [SK71]

    I.e., what time of the day did you arrive?

  • amissat qanoq ilippat?, how have the seal skins progressed? [SK71]

    I.e. progressed in their soaking or some other process preparing them for use.

  • tamakkua taamaalisut kingornatigut, after these thus progressed (items, points, cases etc.) [CWSL58]

    This is a contraction, i.e. taama ilisut, with the participial 3pl ending. The participial mood seems to express time here.

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  • qanoq ilillutit qaqivit?, how did you come up? [SK71]

    Literally: '(by) acting how/in what manner did you come up/ascend' e.g. to the top of a mountain. This is like asking: 'how did you get up there?'.

  • imaalillugu sanassavat, you shall make it in this way [SK71]

    This is a contraction, i.e. ima ilillugu, 'doing thus with it'.

  • utoqqartut ilivoq, he behaves like an old person [SK71]
  • siullersut ilillugu toquppaa, he killed him, behaving with him like (with) the first [SK71]

    I.e. 'he killed him like the first one', so in other words: 'he killed his second victim in the same manner as he killed his first victim'.

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  • nalunaaqqutaq pingasunngorpat ilisissapput, the funeral will be at 3 o'clock [SK71]

    I.e. 'they will bury (someone) at 3 o'clock'. Here, the stem is used with a HTR morpheme.


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