-riar

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Greenlandic

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Pronunciation

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-riar (n-v?, truncative?)

  1. (does something) [noun] times
    • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:
      Inuit BBC-meersut marloriarlutik Ammassalimmiissimapuut.siullermik[sic] martsimi, tassa taamani ukiup sikuani aalaakkammi filmiisoqarsimavoq.
      The people from BBC have been in Ammassalik twice. The first time in March, where they filmed on winter's firm ice on the water [i.e., the ice that is not frozen year-round].

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-riar (v-v?, truncative?)

  1. once, at once
  2. set about to [verb]
  3. (especially imperative) Animates speech.
  4. (conjunctive, conditional) as soon as
  5. (contemporative) Denotes that something is done first.

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