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'I'lic initials hcru iiicrilioiicd arc as follows: (i. (irecnIaiiU (Ge. 

 Kasl Greenland), L. Labrador, C. Centra! Itegions , M. Mackenzie 

 Hiver, W. NVeslcrii wilti Ии' siil)divisions : n. nothern , s. southern, 

 a. Asiatic. 



I I mdieales how some ol llie l'oreif.'n words are correctly written 

 in (jre(;nlandish. 



(I), (II), (III) are used to separate two or three words whicli, 

 Ihuuj^'li spell in the same wny are [)roi)alil,> ot diderenl orif^in. 



The verhal slems are i^wcu with the necessary addition for 

 llcxion (e, p. atoq as alorpoij) namely in the third person of indicative, 

 and as to Iransilive verhs with th(! suffix of the third |)erson: he w 

 it — him or it. As transitive are considered those which, if used 

 without suffix would turn rellexivc. Some exceptions however occur. 

 In the translation of verhs },'cnerally the pronoun, and of nouns 

 oflen the article is omitted. Moreover all the words which in the 

 translation have Ни; appearance of adjectives or participles in the 

 original lan^uaf.'e are to l)c considered nouns; consequently tiiere is 

 to he understood: «he or that who or wtiich is ...» 



The (ierman , J^iif-'lish and Kreuch translations are in general 

 rendered in Knglish according to the originals, though the latter verj 

 oflen depend on misunderstanding, especially of the llexional forms. 

 Only in comparatively few cases strange translations are marked wilii 

 inverted commas. 



I have met with some words in the (jreenland Iradilional tales 

 >vhicli I coidd not refer to Kleinschmidt's stem-words, at least not 

 conlormahly lo (heir usual sense. This may partly depend on a 

 mistake , but some of these words are undouhtedly peculiar to the 

 traditions, to the so to say poetical language, ir) some instances coin- 

 ciding with the peculiar specsch of the conjurers or angakoks. I 

 have marked such expressions, they be really peculiar or not, with 

 • trad, tales», and in a similar way I have indicated by «Fabr.» 

 some words fourni only in the elder dictionary of 0. Fabricius. 



In al|)hal)etieally arranging the stem-words from the other dialects 

 which could not be identified with those from üreenland, but had to 

 be transcribed conformably lo the Greenlandish orthography, I was 

 troubled Willi discerning between e and г, о and и, but especially q 

 and /... In (he Labrador dictionary only in very few cases q is in- 

 dicated by /.;', as for the rest simply k is used for q. In C. these 

 letters have been more carefully discerned by Dr. Boas, and in M. 

 q is generally indicated b\ hr and rkr. But as to the W. dialects 



