The East Greenland dialect. 



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East Greenland Vocabulary 



from Angmagsalik 



compared with the corresponding West Greenland designations and, 

 in part, with other Eskimo dialects. 



Explanations. 



Gw. means West Greenland. 



L. 

 C. 

 M. 

 W. 



Labrador. 



Central dialects (Baffin Land, etc.). 



Mackenzie river. 



West Eskimo (Alaska and Asiatic). 



X (after the word) means that the word is rarely used on the East coast. 

 (NB) do. — the word it not used, although known. 



(0) do. — the word does not seem to be known or used, or the na- 



tives Avill not admit that the}' understand it. 

 = do. — the word is found in . . . (the dialects), at all events ap- 



pearing in derivations. 

 All d. means All dialects. 



no. — no other dialect (than the West Greenlandic). 



с suff. — with suffi.\. 

 plur. — plural. 



Where none of the symbols given above are added, G (Greenland) is meant. 

 The words of other dialects are generally given with the same spelling as the one 

 adopted in my sources. 



I. Earth, Vegetable Kingdom, Water, Ice. 



Angelica quaralik (having a cluster 



of flowers). 



Gw. kuåneq (NB) — L. (a kind of sea- 

 weed). — Kuåneq is named among the 

 few Greenlandic words Avhich resemble 

 Old Norse (Scandinavian), but this view 

 is difficult to hold in consideration of its 

 meaning in L. Perhaps it originates 

 from the same word as quaraq 'a cluster 

 of flowers'. 



Berry, berry-shrub muldsat, mu- 



rdrat; bilberry, blue-berry fø/7- 



gujortut; black crowberry, em- 



petrum pukugaq. 



Gw. blue-beny kigutaernaq == L. 

 ikigutangernak); paormaq (0) = all d., 

 paormaqutit ; tungo juice of berry = L. 



Clay qeqik. 



Gw. qeqoq, most common marraq 

 (0) = all d. (marratdluk X, morass). 



Ice', on the land, apusineq {aput 

 snow); new ice is formed 

 manerkérpoq {manerak = L. 

 smooth ice); ice calving iser- 



qavoq. 



Gw. sermeq X, sikuarpoq. igarpoq. 



Island ingmikertoq. 



Gw. qeqertaq = all d. ; ingmikôrpoq 

 is separated, is set for itself (ingme). 



Lead, black-lead sordlomitaq. 



Gw. torssormiutaq (torssôq entrance 

 of a house), sordliik nostril; — mio be- 

 ing in — . 



