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Greenlandic
Pronunciation
Suffix
-giiaar (n-v?, truncative? except after q and r?)
- (resulting verbs are plural-only) used to express a converse relation or mutuality when there are more than two sets of participants involved.
- sanileq (“neighbour”) -> sanileriiaarput (“they lie side by side, one lies next to the other”)
- assi (“photograph”) -> assigiiaarput (“they are all identical”)
- illuk (“one of two things”) -> illugiiaarput (“they are ordered in pairs”)
- ila (“fellow, companion”) -> ilagiiaarput
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