-taar
Greenlandic
Affix
-taar (n-v?, additive?)
- has gotten a new [noun]
- 1992, "Meeqqakka", Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten
- Nuliaralu siullermik ernertaarpugut, ukiut marluk qaangiummata panmissaarluta,[sic, meaning panissaarluta] sulilu ukiut marluk qaangiuteqqimmata panissaaqqilluta.
- My wife and I first had a son, two years later a daughter, and another two years after that, another daughter.
- Nuliaralu siullermik ernertaarpugut, ukiut marluk qaangiummata panmissaarluta,[sic, meaning panissaarluta] sulilu ukiut marluk qaangiuteqqimmata panissaaqqilluta.
- 1992, "Meeqqakka", Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten
Usage notes
The -t- sometimes becomes -s- if the last vowel of the base is /i/, as with panik in the example above.
Further reading
- Vestgrønlandsk grammatik, p. 88, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014