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General

Morphemic form: {ikvigə}V
New orthography: ippigaa
Old orthography: igpigâ
Sources: [MFSJLK10], [SK71], [CWSL58], [JP67], [CBBJRPIKJR97]
Combinations: View list
Constituents: {?} + V{-gə}V
Right sandhi: Default/none
Inflection sandhi: ə-contraction
Stem type: ə-stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

According to Kleinschmidt [SK71], the meaning of this stem is: Agent is troubled/bothered by Patient. This can be in a literal sense of physical pain or discomfort, but it can also be in a mental sense of finding something improper or unfitting, e.g. a certain usage of a word.

Note that the stem seems to contain V{-gə}V. According to the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [MFSJLK10], the base is a morpheme {ikviɣ-}, to which the aforementioned affix seems to have been added. However, this base {ikviɣ-} has not been inherited independently in Kalaallisut; hence, we record it here as unknown.


Meanings and examples

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  • kamittaakka ippigeqaakka, I am bothered by my new boots [SK71]

    E.g. because they do not fit, so they might cause pain, or because they do not look good.

  • isima illua ippigisalerpara, I now more often have an unpleasant sensation in my one eye [SK71]

    Literally: I begin to habitually be bothered by my one eye.

  • oqaatsit taanna ippigillaaraara, that word you just used bothers me [SK71]

    Literally: 'I am habitually very bothered by thy aforementioned word', i.e. because it was wrongly used.


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