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General

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

According to Kleinschmidt [SK71], the meaning of this stem is 'Agent has finished Patient' or 'Agent is finished with Patient', i.e. a piece of work. However, the stem is more commonly used with intransitive endings, and in this case, it seems that the meaning may either be active or passive: i.e. either

• 'Agent=Actor has finished', or
• 'Patient=Actor is finished'.

Thus, it is unclear whether the stem should be considered agentive or patientive. The intransitive usage also has a number of more specific meanings:

• 'Actor is fully grown/developed' (i.e., 'has finished growing/developing').
• 'Actor has reached orgasm', 'has come' etc. This meaning is only in Oqaatsit [CBBJRPIKJR97]; not in the older dictionaries.

Inflection

Inflection pattern:

Meanings and examples

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Tags

• Semantic categorisation / Uncategorised

References

• [MFSJLK10] Michael Fortescue, Steven Jacobson, Lawrence Kaplan (2010): Comparative Eskimo Dictionary (2ED).
• [SK71] Samuel Kleinschmidt (1871): Den grønlandske Ordbog.
• [CWSL58] C.W. Schultz-Lorentzen (1958): Den Grønlandske Ordbog.
• [JP67] Jonathan Petersen (1967): Ordbogêraĸ.
• [CBBJRPIKJR97] Christian Berthelsen, Birgitte Jakobsen, Robert Petersen, Inge Kleivan & Jørgen Rischel (1997): Oqaatsit.