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because they have been artificially obtained by analyses, nor that 

 such endings have never existed. There may have been a period in 

 the development of the Eskimo language when the words occurred in 

 forms different from any words that exist now. 



§ 15. Examples of Bases and Steins ^ 



1 The abbreviations Al., Gr., Lab., M., stand throughout for Alaska, Greenland, Labrador, and 

 Mackenzie river, respectively. 



^sanik thus appears to be a derivative of the plural collective sannit. 



3sanerpaam!iy have been formed after the analogy of i'maaerpaa to empty (take [the content] 

 [ima] AWAY), cf. immerpaa fills it (with ima). 



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