-qqig

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

  • (Nuuk) IPA(key): /-qqiɡ/, [-q.qɪɣ]

Suffix

-qqig (v-v?, truncative?)

  1. [verb]s again
    • 1992, “Meeqqakka”, in 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.
  2. [verb]s further, [verb]s on
  3. [verb]s back

Further reading

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