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General

Morphemic form: +{qə}V, +{rə}V
Phonemic orthography: qə-
Sources: [MFSJLK10, under PY qə-]
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Stem type: Vowel stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This morpheme is not given an entry in the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [MFSJLK10] under Proto-Eskimoic (PE) morphemes. Instead, they do record a morpheme of this form under Proto-Yupik (PY), which is one of the daughter branches (the other is Proto-Inuit (PI)). However, other PE morphemes, especially +{qður}V, +{qqar}V and +{ðaqə}V also reference a morpheme of this form, thus suggesting that it must have been in PE as well. We therefore include this as a PE morpheme in the present dictionary.

The authors of [MFSJLK10] note that the present morpheme (in PY) is restricted to /tə/ stems, so they suggest it may be a tə-stem allomorph of an earlier r-initial form. We therefore record this as a secondary form, +{rə}V.


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