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General

Morphemic form: {qauma}V
New orthography: qaamavoq
Old orthography: ĸaumavoĸ
Sources: [MFSJLK10], [SK71], [CWSL58], [JP67], [CBBJRPIKJR97]
Combinations: View list
Constituents: {qau}V + V{-(u)ma}V
Right sandhi: Default/none
Inflection sandhi: Default/none
Stem type: Vowel stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

The meaning of this stem is 'Actor is light' or 'is bright', 'shines' etc., e.g. referring to a lamp, the sun, the moon, or similar. Without an explicit Actor, it can also denote 'it is light', referring to e.g. 'the daylight'; or 'it is day', or 'there is light (in the room)', and so on. According to the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [MFSJLK10], it is an old combination of {qau}V + V{-(u)ma}V.


Meanings and examples

I.e. a lamp, the sun/moon. Without an explicit Actor, it can also denote 'it is light', referring to e.g. 'the daylight'; or 'it is day', or 'there is light (in the room)', and so on.

Tags: Being


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