Details
General
| Morphemic form: | {uuma}V |
| New orthography: | uumavoq |
| Old orthography: | ûmavoĸ |
| 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:
The meaning of this stem is: 'Actor is alive' or 'Actor lives'.
According to Kleinschmidt [SK71], it may be used in a general sense of anything that is alive (human or animal), cf. also {inuu}V.
However, it may also be used in a more restricted sense of animals only, whereas {inuu}V is only used of humans.
Inflection
Inflection pattern:
| Stem type: | Vowel stem |
| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none |
Meanings and examples
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Tags
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.