-nngor

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /-ŋŋur/, [-ŋ.ŋɔʁ]

Suffix

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

1. 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.

   sumi inunngorsimavit?

   Where were you born? (literally "Where did you become a person?")

   kisinngorput

   They were left behind (literally "They became alone")

2. (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

Greenlandic terms suffixed with -nngor

References

• -nngor in Katersat
• Vestgrønlands Grammatik, p. 80, F.A.J. Nielsen, 2014