988 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



[bull. 40 



Southwest Alaska am' Im hol'amin \ainiin qoL . . . ] above the 

 door (Nelson, tale from St, Michael, Norton sound, in "Eskimo 

 of Bering Strait"); of. Greenland ammip qulaanut above the 

 skin 



Southwest Alaska nunam of the land (Barnum, 9), cf. Greenland 

 mmap 



[In Baffin land both p and m occur in the same way as r>^, 

 u>9, t>n^ are found. See p. 985, and note 1, p. 987. — F. B.] 



f¥i>w ox «'• 



Labrador hnnaq 



Baffin land taimna 



Baffin land imna (Boas II, 348) 



Baffin land uvainnule but to me 



{ibid.) 

 North Alaska uumnun [ua^nnim] 



(Ray 56) 

 Southwest Alaska humlok 

 Southwest Alaska pekdmkln mine 



thou art 



p {f)>w or "'. 



Greenland (Egede, 1750) iUit 

 Greenland (Egede, 1750) illipse 

 Labrador (nowadays) igvit 

 Labrador uibvak 

 Baffin land taipJcoa 

 Mackenzie river taplcoa 

 North Alaska kahlun 

 Greenland (Egede, 1750) kablo 

 Greenland (Egede, 1750) kablunak 

 Mackenzie river kpaptgi 

 Southwest Alaska kafchin \<iaFcin\ 

 Southwest Alaska 'chupplu 

 Southwest Alaska 'aj^rmi main 



trail, regular passage 

 Mackenzie river (coast of Hudson 



bay) nippiakkiak 



Gr. i^nnaq steep declivity 



Gr. taa^7ia that one 



Gr. ^«'wrt that 



Gr. uwa^nnut to me 



Gr. uwa}"nnut to me 



Gr. ku^LLoq thumb 



Gr. piya^kkit I have thee 



Gr. (1900) 'iLLit thou 

 Gr. (1900) i'U'^sse you 

 Gr. (1900) iLLit thou 

 Gr. (1900) u'iFFoq a fern 



Gr. taoFkoa those 



,^ U/a^LLiit or] , 

 Gr. r . , eyebrow 



[qaLLUt J 



Gr. qiiLLunaaq European 



Gr. qdyssit how many 



Gr. su^LLoq tube 



Gr. a^qqut or a^qqut pathway 



Gr. niwiarsiaq girl 



§ 6. Shifting of Voiced and Voiceless Fricatives 



It is a characteristic feature of the Greenland language, and prob- 

 ably of the Eskimo language as a whole, that no voiced consonant 

 occurs which is long (geminated), with the sole exception of the nasal 

 consonants, m {ammit skins), n {anneq the greatest one), y {iyyik 



§6 



