Details

General

Morphemic form: +{kar}N
Phonemic orthography: kaʀ
Sources: [MFSJLK10]
Combinations: View list
Variants: +{ðar}N
Stem type: Uvular stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is one of the morphemes used to form a passive participle of transitive verbs. Its descendants are suppletive to the descendants of +{ðar}N in at least some of the Inuit languages, suggesting that this suppletion may have been present already in PI (if not PE).

In the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [MFSJLK10] it is not explained why there would be these two different morphemes with seemingly the same meaning, or whether they originally had distinct meanings.


Meanings and examples


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