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The shift t>s may be observed in those grammatical forms, in which 

 a suffix the usual initial of which is t has to be added after a word 

 ending in i, since t between two ^'s will change to s; e.g., in the opta- 

 tive takulisit would he would see rou, < *-li-tit but iakicUttitwoxjijD 

 THEY WOULD SEE YOU, < -lit-tit. Likewise in takoyamisit as he saw you 

 (cf. takoyamittit as they saw you). 



aa^Laaisit your gun, the guns ( < aa^hacO't a gun) 



tLLuisiyut through his houses {KiLLuatiyut through his house) 



kamisit = kamitit (both in use) your boots 



-sippaa= -tippaa (verbal suffix, causative) 



The shift ^'>s has left few traces only in the Greenland grammar; 

 e. g., in the inflection of some few nouns. 



kana'joq^ plural ka'fiassui {<*ka?iqjjut) a sea-scorpion 

 qarajaq, locative qarasame (place-name in Oommannaq liord) 

 'pitjasut three, plural <*piyajoq (cf. phjajuat the third, etc.) 

 (Thalbitzer I, 177) 



§ 9. Shifting of Consonants with Change of Place of 



Articulation 



The shifts mentioned in the preceding sections are all alike, in that 

 the place of articulation does not change. The following examples of 

 shift are chiefly due to a shifting of the place of articulation: 



Ic-q, 



Labrador Mackenzie River Greenland 



qikkertaq kplkepktapk qe'qerttaq island 



nelJ/unaikutaq nelu7mykutapk{siG- nalunaarqutaq a 



nal) mark 



erqerqoq kpikeptkpopk = ek- e'qerqoq fourth 



kdikok coast of finger 



Hudson bay) 



The latter word may be compared with the Alaska forms of the 

 same word, northern Alaska yiukutko (Ray), northwest Alaska etitkook 

 (Wells and Kelly), southwest Alaska ikkilthkok (Barnum) \ik:iLqoq\^ 

 cf . Thalbitzer I, 263. - 



The same shift may be observed by a comparison of the West Green- 

 land teqerqoq a corner of a house, and the East Greenland ti'kerqoq. 



These differences are probably due to analogy, and not to successive 

 shif tings of the parts of articulation. The same is true of the examples 



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