Details

General

Morphemic form: N{k}
New orthography: -t, -it
Old orthography: -t, -it
Sources: [CR88], [FAJN19]
Combinations: View list
Left sandhi: Default

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is the un-possessed absolutive dual ending. It is rarely used, except in a few expressions.


Left sandhi:

The ending is not inherently truncative (i.e. sandhi truncative), but it is phonotactically truncative. The ending consists of a single consonant, and any stem ending in a consonant must necessarily therefore lose this consonant, since no syllable (and hence no word) can end on a double consonant.

It seems that on strong stems with /ək/ or /əq/ and metathesis, it may (have) trigger(ed) metathesis and at the same time cause /ə/ to take the sound [a].


Meanings and examples

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