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General

Morphemic form: +{ðar}V, +{ðaqə}V
Phonemic orthography: ðaʀ-, ðaqə-
Sources: [MFSJLK10]
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Stem type: Uvular stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

The meaning of this affix is 'habitually' or 'repeatedly', thus denoting either habitual or repeated action. The authors of [MFSJLK10] speculate that it may have altered with tar-, taqə- already in Proto-Eskimoic, i.e. following the usual rule for /ð/ also present in modern Kalaallisut. The authors also propose that this affix in Proto-Inuit was used with suppletion from a different morpheme, +{gaa}V.

For the second form, +{ðaqə}V, the authors mention a relation to a morpheme, which we here record as +{qə}V. That morpheme is not actually given an entry as a Proto-Eskimoic (PE) morpheme in the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary, but rather only as a Proto-Yupik (PY) morpheme. However, since the present affix is PE, this suggests that a PE form of that affix should have existed as well.


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