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Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This stem is a combination of {əlit}V + V{sima}V, where the latter has deleted the final /t/ of the former, as may be seen especially in older combinations. It has several meanings, according to various dictionaries [SK71], [CWSL58], [CBBJRPIKJR97]:

• 'Agent knows/recognises Patient'. This seems to be the literal meaning, obtained from the combination, in the sense that the Agent has learnt Patient, and therefore knows it. This meaning may also be detransitivised with a HTR-morpheme, denoting 'Agent=Actor knows/is knowledgable (about something@INS)'.
• 'Actor is knowledgable/learned'. This usage is only intransitive, without HTR.
• 'Actor is conscious'. This usage is only intransitive, without HTR. This can also be used to refer to a limb, i.e. 'the limb is conscious', to denote that the owner of that limb can feel it; or, if negated, that he cannot feel it (e.g. due to cold).

Notable forms:

• HTR: {əlisima}V + V{nnək}V ⇒ /əlisimannək/
  

  This HTR-stem is documented by Kleinschmidt [SK71], Schultz-Lorentzen [CWSL58] and in Oqaatsit [CBBJRPIKJR97].

• Passive participle: {əlisima}V + V{-ðaq}N ⇒ /əlisimacaq/
  

Meanings and examples

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Tags

• Thematic grouping / Knowing

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.