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Explanations. 



The signification of the term: independent slem or stem -word 

 (radical word) as dilTering from llie rod or radix has been mcnlioned 

 before. In the following voeabularj I have tried to compile all Ihe 

 stems or groups of words bound to them which I was able to 

 discover in the literary sources quoted above, only omitting some 

 words, the real nature or existence of which in the native tongue 

 seemed to be doubtful or too little susceptible of any reasonable 

 interpretation. It will be seen that the designation of the true stem 

 of a group of kindred words must have been no easy task even in 

 the Greenlandish dictionary. In a few cases the stem is represented 

 by what seems to be the very root itself; more frequently a word 

 is resorted to which is evidently a derivative. As to the other dia- 

 lects besides the latter expedient it is tried to indicate the supposed 

 stem by merely abbreviating a word belonging to the group. 



The stem -words or the derivatives representing them are indi- 

 cated by heavy type and are arranged in alphabetical order according 

 to Kleinschmidt's Greenland Dictionary. For this reason the supposed 

 stem-words peculiar to Ihe other dialects are as far as possible 

 transcribed according to his mode of writing (their original form partly 

 added in parenthesis), whereas the derivatives excepting a few letters 

 and especially the accents and hyphens, arc spelt as in the ori- 

 ginals. 



The sign «f » signifies that the stem-word is obsolete and pro- 

 bably not any longer used in Greenland in this radical form, but 

 only known through ils derivatives. 



The sign «*» indicates that the stem is supposed to be foreign 

 to Greenland. 



The initials which wilh the sign << = » immediately follow the 

 Greenlandish stem and its translation indicate the other dialects , in 

 which it has been found by the author, either in this radical form 

 or as contained in derivatives. Then the examples of the latter, 

 headed by «Drv.», are subjoined, also comprising flexional endings 

 and. various doubtful forms. 



