-neqar

Greenlandic

Affix

-neqar (v-v^?, additive^?)

is [verb]ed; forms passive verbs
- 1982 August 4, "Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq", Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten
  Michael Treen oqaluttuarpoq Ammassalik toqqarneqar simasoq pissusiata sikuijuitsumut^{[sic, meaning sikuiuitsumut]} kujallermut eqqaanarnera pissutigalugu.
  Michael Treen relates that Ammassalik was chosen because of the similarity of its nature to that of the Antarctic Ocean ["the Southern ice-sea"].
- 1988, "AIDS-INFO", Atuagagdliutit
  Naqitigaaqqat AIDS pillugu paasisitsiniutit Afrikami kujallermi umiarsualivinnut agguaanneqar simapput umiartortut nappaassuarmut ulorianartumut taassumunnga mianersoqquniarlugit, ...
  Pamphlets informing about AIDS were distributed to harbours in South Africa, so as to warn sailors against this dangerous big disease [nappaassuaq "big disease" might be idiomatic], ...
- "Tasiilami efterskoleqalernissaa Jakob Sivertsen-ip sulissutigaa", Atuagagdliutit
  Kalaallit Nunaanni efterskole lior titer ni ssaq piumassuse qar fi gi neqarpoq, aningaasa ssa qar tin neqa nngillal li
- 1992 21/8, "Usuni kipigaa", Atuagagdliutit, p. 11
  Qanittukkut aviisini eqqartorneqarpoq qallunaap usuni kipisimagaa nuliama itigartitsiuarnera naalliuutigingaaramiuk.
  Recently, there was a story in the papers about a Dane who cut off his/her penis because he/she was very pained by his/her wife's persistent rejections.

References

-neqar in Katersat
Vestgrønlandsk grammatik, p. 108, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014

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