-miit- is a verb meaning "to be somewhere".
illumiittuq | He/she is in the house. |
Jalunaimiittugut. | We (3+) are in Yellowknfie. |
In the South Qikiqtaaluk dialect -miit- deletes any consonant that appears immediately before it :
sirluaq | shed |
sirluamiittut | They (3+) are in the shed. |
pulaarvik | style="width: 300px;"living room |
pulaarvimiittuuk | They (2) are in the living room. |
-miit- also shows up in questions:
namiippit? | Where are you? |
namiippa? | Where is he/she/it? |