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General

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

The meaning of this stem is 'Agent washes Patient', where Patient denotes either clothes or dishes.

According to Kleinschmidt [SK71], there is only one HTR-stem, errorsivoĸ, but Schultz-Lorentzen [CWSL58] also gives another one, erruivoĸ. Likewise, he also gives two different passive participles, errugkat and errortat, both denoting 'laundry' (after it was washed). However, in the newer dictionary Oqaatsit [CBBJRPIKJR97], the two HTR-forms are given two different meanings: errorsivoq for 'doing laundry' and erruivoq for 'doing the dishes'. Likewise, only errortat is recorded therein in the sense of 'laundry', whereas Kleinschmidt only gives errugaĸ in this sense (whilst not mentioning errortat). Thus, it seems that the meaning has changed, and it is possible (albeit unattested in the Oqaatsit dictionary) that errukkat is used for 'washed dishes' nowadays.

Notable forms:

• HTR: {ərruq}V + V{ði}V ⇒ /ərruqsi/
  

  This HTR-form is attested in all dictionaries [SK71], [CWSL58], [CBBJRPIKJR97], albeit in the newest one only in the sense of 'do laundry'. It is irregularly formed according to the left-sandhi rules for V{ði}V on q-stems, with /s/ rather than deletion of /q/.

• HTR: {ərruq}V + V{ði}V ⇒ /ərrui/
  

  This HTR-form is attested in dictionaries after Kleinschmidts, i.e. [CWSL58], [CBBJRPIKJR97], albeit in the newest one only in the sense of 'wash dishes'. It is regularly formed according to the left-sandhi rules for V{ði}V on q-stems.

• Passive participle: {ərruq}V + V{-ðaq}N ⇒ /ərruqðaq/
  

  This passive participle is attested in Schultz-Lorentzen [CWSL58] and Oqaatsit [CBBJRPIKJR97], albeit in both exclusively in the sense of 'laundry' (in plural). It is irregularly formed according to the left-sandhi rules for V{-ðaq}N on q-stems.

• Passive participle: {ərruq}V + V{-ðaq}N ⇒ /ərrugaq/
  

  This passive participle is attested in Kleinschmidt [SK71] and Schultz-Lorentzen [CWSL58] in the sense of 'laundry' (in plural), but it is not listed in Oqaatsit [CBBJRPIKJR97]. It is regularly formed according to the left-sandhi rules for V{-ðaq}N on q-stems. Given the split meanings for the two different HTR-stems, it is possible that this passive participle might be used exclusively in the sense of 'washed dishes'.

Inflection

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Meanings and examples

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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.