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The initials here mentioned are as follows: G. Greenland (Ge. 

 East Greenland), L. Labrador, C. Central Regions, M. Mackenzie 

 Kiver, W. Western with the subdivisions: n. nothern , s. southern, 

 a. Asiatic. 



] indicates how some of the foreign words are correctly written 

 in Greenlandish. 



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

 though spelt in the same way are probably of different origin. 



The verbal stems are given with the necessary addition for 

 flexion (e. g. atoq as atorpoq) namely in the third person of indicative, 

 and as to transitive verbs with the suffix of the third person: he or 

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

 without suffix would turn reflexive. Some exceptions however occur. 

 In the translation of verbs generally the pronoun, and of nouns 

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

 translation have the appearance of adjectives or participles in the 

 original language are to be considered nouns; consequently there is 

 to be understood: he or that who or which is . . . 



The German, English and French translations are in general 

 rendered in English according to the" originals, though the latter very 

 often depend on misunderstanding, especially of the flexional forms. 

 Only in comparatively few cases strange translations are marked with 

 inverted commas. 



I have met with some words in the Greenland traditional tales 

 which I could not refer to Kleinschmidt's stem-words, at least not 

 conformably to their usual sense. This may partly depend on a 

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

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

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

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

 otrad. tales, and in a similar way I have indicated by Fabr. 

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



In alphabetically arranging the stem-words from the other dialects 

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

 be transcribed conformably to the Greenlandish orthography, I was 

 troubled with discerning between e and i\ o and &, but especially q 

 and k. In the Labrador dictionary only in very few cases q is in- 

 dicated by k\ 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 by kr and rkr. But as to the W. dialects 



