-koorfik

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Greenlandic

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Etymology

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Particularly: “It looks like it's composed of -vik, but I cannot find a verbalizing affix -koor-.”

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-koorfik (n-n?, truncative?)

  1. a place for discarding, receptacle of undesired things
    nuakoorfik
    A spittoon.

Derived terms

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