"-u" meaning in Greenlandic

See -u in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: /-u/ (note: Nuuk), [-ʊ] (note: Nuuk)
Head templates: {{head|kl|suffix}} -u, {{kl-suffix|n-v|trunc|vowel-link=j}} -u (n-v, truncative, uses -j- as interfix)
  1. be Tags: interfix-j, morpheme, truncative, verb-from-noun

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{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kl",
        "2": "suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-u",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n-v",
        "2": "trunc",
        "vowel-link": "j"
      },
      "expansion": "-u (n-v, truncative, uses -j- as interfix)",
      "name": "kl-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Greenlandic",
  "lang_code": "kl",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Greenlandic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Greenlandic links with redundant target parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant target parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with raw sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ilinniartitsisoq (“teacher”) -> ilinniartitsisiuuvugut (“we are teachers”) ."
        },
        {
          "english": "It is winter.",
          "text": "Ukiuuvoq."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 May 7, “Tasiilami efterskoleqalernissaa Jakob Sivertsen-ip sulissutigaa”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten",
          "roman": "MP Jakob Sivertsen, of Atassut, is diligent.",
          "text": "Inatsisartunut ilaasortaq Jakob Sivertsen Atassummeersoq ilungersornertuujuvoq.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Our son has become gay (it was discovered when he was 19 years old), and the youngest girl has become a lesbian. The middle [child] is as she should be [i.e. heterosexual].",
          "ref": "1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten",
          "text": "Ernerput anguteqatiminoortartunngorsimavoq (19-inik ukioqarluni paasineqarpoq), niviarsiararlu nukarleq arnaqatiminoortartunngorsimalluni. Akulleq pissusissamisoortuuvoq.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "be"
      ],
      "id": "en--u-kl-suffix-RlmcW7XD",
      "links": [
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "interfix-j",
        "morpheme",
        "truncative",
        "verb-from-noun"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/-u/",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ʊ]",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-u"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kl",
        "2": "suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-u",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n-v",
        "2": "trunc",
        "vowel-link": "j"
      },
      "expansion": "-u (n-v, truncative, uses -j- as interfix)",
      "name": "kl-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Greenlandic",
  "lang_code": "kl",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Greenlandic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Greenlandic lemmas",
        "Greenlandic links with redundant target parameters",
        "Greenlandic suffixes",
        "Greenlandic terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Greenlandic terms with quotations",
        "Pages with raw sortkeys",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ilinniartitsisoq (“teacher”) -> ilinniartitsisiuuvugut (“we are teachers”) ."
        },
        {
          "english": "It is winter.",
          "text": "Ukiuuvoq."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 May 7, “Tasiilami efterskoleqalernissaa Jakob Sivertsen-ip sulissutigaa”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten",
          "roman": "MP Jakob Sivertsen, of Atassut, is diligent.",
          "text": "Inatsisartunut ilaasortaq Jakob Sivertsen Atassummeersoq ilungersornertuujuvoq.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Our son has become gay (it was discovered when he was 19 years old), and the youngest girl has become a lesbian. The middle [child] is as she should be [i.e. heterosexual].",
          "ref": "1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten",
          "text": "Ernerput anguteqatiminoortartunngorsimavoq (19-inik ukioqarluni paasineqarpoq), niviarsiararlu nukarleq arnaqatiminoortartunngorsimalluni. Akulleq pissusissamisoortuuvoq.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "be"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "interfix-j",
        "morpheme",
        "truncative",
        "verb-from-noun"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/-u/",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ʊ]",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-u"
}

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