BOAS] HANDBOOK OP AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 983 



It is noteworthy that in the development of the language, in a great 

 many words a shift of stress has taken place, whereby oxytones have 

 become paroxytones, or vice versa. This is shown by many inflected 

 forms and derivations in the Greenland dialect here mentioned, and 

 also b}' comparison of other dialects. 



Greenland a'meq a skin > plural 'ammit skins 



Greenland ma'lik a wave > verbal ' majuLerpoq the seals rolling 



Greenland 'iLLit thou < casus obi. i'linnut to thee 



Greenland a'teq a name = Alaska '^^(?(/(Barnum 325) 



Greenland a^'j/toj' bastard = Alaska «'A'w^«^ mixed dish 



Greenland ilu'mut yes, truly = Alaska i'lumuii {ibid. 336) 



Greenland uki'oq winter = Alaska ' itkshuk {ibid. 372) 



Greenland 'tiiLLimdt live = A\2i,sk^ iciL' Lemdn {ihid. 367) 



Greenland a'tacC^seq one =\j2iCiX'c\AQV attauseq = ' attaaf"seq\ 



Labrador 'sittamat four = Alaska st'ainen {ibid. 365) 



„ ,■,.,.■,., , ['ndtroh (ibid. 355) boot- 



Greenland na teq bottom, ^p^^^^^ sole 



^^^^" J \'natuk{ibid.)^OQ,Y 



Greenland 'u^Lnime to-day = Caribou lake^ upelumi to-day 



Greenland '(7aii/^ the upper-l >^>, ., i i ? ? ' -^ / '\ 



^ ^^ = Caribou lake kpmeptt (superposes) 



most j 



[Alaska agge'irqtoa \ak:efirt:od\ 



Greenland 'axxerpoq ap-] ^^^^.^^^^^ 3^9) ^ ^raw 



proaches 



near, 

 come m view 



§ 4. Changes of Palatal Consonants 



The following instances show that shifting of consonants occur 

 partly in connection with the shifting of stress and partly without 

 such. 



If the final syllable of a word that ends in q or yfc becomes penultima 

 by the addition of a sufiix, the syllable loses its stress and the conso- 

 nant may assume an intervocalic position. In these cases the con- 

 sonant becomes voiced, q shifting to the voiced r, and k to g^ which, in 

 turn, changes to y. The same changes of these sounds sometimes 

 occur when the part added is not a suffix, but an independent word. 

 q'>v, q becomes r in the plurals of many nouns; e. g., 



Singular Plural 



ti'keq tikerit forefingei 



'nerLeq nerLerit goose 



1 Mackenzie river, Petitot Vocabulaire, p. 7. 



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