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General

Morphemic form: +{liq}V
Phonemic orthography: liq-
Sources: [MFSJLK10]
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Stem type: q-stem

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

According to the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary [MFSJLK10], the meaning of this affix is 'begin to'. They speculate it might be from an unattested morpheme {*lliq-} from +{li}V + +{r}V, where the latter would have caused gemination of /l/ to /ll/. However, why the /ll/ then again would have reduced to /l/ is then not clear, so we do not record it as a combination here.


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