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for active, and taq, gaq, ssaq for passive verbs, and as for the 

 rest merely by juxtaposition, f. e. The man who departed yesterday 

 inuk igpagssaq autdlartoq. The man who was seen y. in. igp. 

 takussaq, the latter generally wsf. , f. e. takussarput (our seen) 

 whom we saw. The reciprocal Pr. are rendered, as regards ex- 

 clusively transitive verbs, by using them without suffix or object 

 (see Vol. 1 p. 59). As for the rest they are translated by ingme, 

 Ingminik and nangmineq (see S. 2,1). interrogative Pr., who kina, 

 what suna. 



ADVERBS. 



If not in the shape of affixes, they are generally rendered by 

 the Modalis mik, f. e. in the first place sujugdlermik, the next time 

 kingugdlermik. Than, in the comparative sense, by the Ablative 

 mit f f. e. greater than a reindeer tugtumit angineruvoq. Like , by 

 Apposition tut, f. e. speaks like a native inugtut oqalugpoq. How 

 qanoq. 



(^JUNCTIONS. 



Not only, by Afx. indungitsoq. Whether (asking), by Afx. sora- 

 higo (meaning) , f. e. I asked him whether he would start aperdra 

 aiddldsasoralugo (meaning that he w. s.). Since, by conjunctive in 

 connexion with kingorna (afterwards) , f. e. Since we started we 

 have taken no rest autdlaravta kingorna uningilagut. 



Both and, by repeating the Particle lo, f. e. arnatdlo angutitdlo, 

 both women and men. Or, by the appended Part, limit. That, by 

 flexion and affixes , f. e. He said that the kayacker had not yet 

 arrived qajaq sule tikingitsoq oqautigd (the k. , him who st. n. h. 

 arr. he spoke about); he pelted it with stones that it might break 

 ujarqanik milorpd aserorquvdlugo (quvd causes or wishes, it). If. 

 by the subjunctive mood. Therefore taimd-imat (as it was so). 



PREPOSITIONS. 



The Casus locales or Appositions are used figuratively almost 

 just as the corresponding prepositions in other languages. Besides 

 them and the ,, words of place" (see Vol. I p. 52) also several 

 affixes are used, f. e. lik with (having) ; ilaq ; qdngitsoq (having none) 

 without. 



II. THE ANGAKOK LANGUAGE. In Vol. I occasionally some 

 words are inserted from the idiom used by the conjurers in pract- 

 ising the invocation of their guardian spirits and other ceremonies. 

 To the ancient lists of words from this language in Greenland, by 

 P. Egede and Fabricius, the only sources we hitherto have possessed, 

 we are now able to add a similar one , procured by Dr. F. Boas 

 from Baffin's-land. A comparison of these lists with the ordinary 

 language offers several interesting points, especially so far as the 

 said magicians, besides exchanging the signification of existing words, 



