-nngor
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Greenlandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-nngor (n-v?, truncative?)
- has become
- ataata (“father”) -> ataatanngorpoq (“has become a father”)
- 2017 July 20, Walter Turnowsky, “Siumup inuusuttaat qinersinissamut akerliupput”, in Sermitsiaq:
- Siumumi siulittaasunngorniunnerup ikerinnakkut qinersineq kingunerisinnaavaa.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:
- Ernerput anguteqatiminoortartunngorsimavoq (19-inik ukioqarluni paasineqarpoq), niviarsiararlu nukarleq arnaqatiminoortartunngorsimalluni.
- Our son has become gay (it was discovered when he was 19 years old), and the youngest girl has become a lesbian.
- kisinngorput
- They were left behind (literally "They became alone")
- (with numerals) it is n o'clock, it is the nth day of the week
- marluk (“two”) -> marlunngorpoq (“it is 2 o'clock, it is Tuesday”)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- -nngor in Katersat
- Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 80, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014