Explanation. 



The plan of the present essay required to make its text as 

 compendious as possible , keeping it within similar limits as the 

 Lists of Stemwords and Affixes in the former Volume (1). Above 

 all in the Gen'&ral Part of the present, the former Volume is supposed 

 to be at hand, especially concerning the question, how far the 

 Greenland words are known in the other Eskimo countries. On 

 account of the scarciness of our sources, in judging this occur- 

 rence we must resort in the main to its supposed connection with 

 the extent of the stemwords , a statement of which is given in the 

 above quoted List. As for the rest, under the heading ..Derivata, 

 Examples", some words which most decidedly seem to differ from 

 Greenlandic are marked ,,*", and of others that are less deviating, 

 the cognate or in reality even identic Greenland designation, as 

 correctly spelled is added within square brackets [ ] , Avliile finally 

 those which appear most dubious are marked „(?)". — As to the 

 affixes , the signs indicating the rules for appending them and ex- 

 plained in Vol. I p. 64 are omitted here , excepting such as are 

 necessary for distinguishing some of them from others identically 

 spelled. 



ABBREVIATIONS: G. Greenland; L. Labrador; С Central 

 Regions; M. Mackenzie River ; W^. Extreme American West (Alaska), 

 n. northern, s. southern; A.Asiatic; Stw. Stemwords; Afx. Affixes; 

 ÜRV. ExPL. Derivata and Examples; wsf. with suffix. 



The peculiarities of the Eskimo grammar in connection with 

 the necessary simplification of our text have not always allowed to 

 give the English word and its translation in corresponding flexional 

 forms. Adjectives are partly represented by verbs in their normal 

 form (indicative 3^ P.), as: ,,he or it is . . . .". Verbs may be given 

 in the same form , even if in some cases the English word is 

 represented by infinitive or participle. But the reader will soon 

 find that this irregularity is restricted to a few alternatives which 

 hardly can give rise to misunderstanding. 



