-riar

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /-riar/, [-ʁɪ.ɑʁ]

Suffix

-riar (n-v^?, truncative^?)

1. (does something) [noun] times
   • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     Inuit BBC-meersut marloriarlutik Ammassalimmiissimapuut.siullermik^[sic] martsimi, tassa taamani ukiup sikuani aalaakkammi filmiisoqarsimavoq.

     The people from BBC have been in Ammassalik twice. The first time in March, where they filmed on winter's firm ice on the water [i.e., the ice that is not frozen year-round].

See also

• -giar

Further reading

• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 94, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
• Bjørnum, S.: Grønlandsk grammatik, p. 258. 2003 Atuagkat.

Suffix

-riar (v-v^?, truncative^?)

1. once, at once
2. set about to [verb]
3. (especially imperative) Animates speech.
4. (conjunctive, conditional) as soon as
5. (contemporative) Denotes that something is done first.

Further reading

• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 113, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 133, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014
• Bjørnum, S.: Grønlandsk grammatik, p. 258. 2003 Atuagkat.
• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 139, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014