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- II. The Eskimo language, its admirable organisation as to the construction and flexion of words
- Construction of words by means of the dependent stems or affixes
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Construction of words by means of the dependent stems
or affixes.
The nature and use of the affixes in general has already been
explained. It was mentioned that the greater part of these additions
are perfectly moveable. But some have become immoveable, their
application being limited to certain words, or though moveable,
certain combinations of them with primitive stems have acquired a fixed
peculiar signification. Moreover there is no sharp distinction between
the moveable and immoveable affixes. For these reasons the
dictionary must continually refer to the affixes.
Many affixes, although having a more or less distinct signification,
are often used in a way only slightly affecting the sense of the
word. Especially in narrative — or so to say poetical style — very
compound words occur, of whose elements some almost seem to be
inserted merely for the sake of enphony.
As to their nature and signification, the affixes are divided into
nouns and verbs. The latter have their formative addition like the
primitive verbs which lose their addition in receiving the affix with
the flexion; the same is repeated with the derivatives each time a new
affix is added. Nominal as well as verbal affixes are again divided
into transforming, by which nouns are converted into verbs and vice
versa, and formative which only are appended to stems of their own
kind. The formative nominal affixes are also grouped as adjectively
or substantively formative, f. i. igdlúnguaq a small house, and igdlulik
one who has a house. The formative verbal affixes in a similar way
are divided into neutral, transitive and intransitive.
As trying to extract a tolerably complete collection of the
affixes contained in the words known from the other dialects and
arranging them, would be a very difficult problem, I have limited the
following list to the Greenlandish affixes and examples of compound
words, giving an idea of the application of the same affixes in the
other dialects. A few examples from the latter containing doubtful
elements are finally added; only few affixes have been observed in
them which with any degree of certainty could be considered non
existent in Greenland.
The following signs have been adopted by Kleinschmidt for
indicating the rules for adding the affixes to the stems:
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