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Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This stem is a lexicalised combination of {pujuq}V, 'emit smoke', and the non-productive morpheme V{-uq}V denoting a longer duration. It has both an intransitive and a transitive usage:

• Intransitive: 'Actor smokes' or 'emits smoke' (consistently, i.e. for a longer duration), e.g. a chimney.
• Transitive: 'Agent smokes Patient', i.e. meat, fish etc. for preserving it.

It is unclear whether the transitive usage is patientive or reflexive, but Oqaatsit [CBBJRPIKJR97] gives a HTR-stem, so it is clearly not agentive.

Notable forms:

• HTR: {pujuuq}V + V{ði}V ⇒ /pujuuri/
  

  The HTR-stem is regularly formed with weakening of /q/ to /r/ after /VV/. It is mentioned in Oqaatsit [CBBJRPIKJR97].

• Passive participle: {pujuuq}V + V{-ðaq}N ⇒ /pujuugaq/
  

  The passive participle form is regular. It is mentioned in Ordbogeeraq [JP67].

Meanings and examples

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Tags

• Semantic categorisation / Uncategorised
• Semantic categorisation / Verbal bases / Making

References

• [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.