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ÜTiiw.oq it flies away tHri'^up-a- it flies away with it 



(a bird) 



Щто^а- he takes it Pi^'^wp'^a- he takes it and some- 



thing else with it 



'a'"'law<oq moves, roams about ^a-'^Å'^arp^oq takes his depart- 

 ure, has started 



kuPäp'^oq cannot speak plainly hut^à'^p-^oq speaks plainly and 



distinctly 



4'^X'^it you il'in'^'ut to you 



am^eq skin ^ат'гтЧк Instrumental of ameq 



^am''ik''ut Vialis of ameq 



\am\i\a its (ejus) skin 'am-'e its (suus, reflexive pro- 



noun) skin 



§ 22. The musical accent (pitch and intonation) of 

 the Greenlandic language I have examined in various ways, 

 both purely empirically and experimentally. 



On my journey through North Greenland, I became in- 

 terested in the marked differences of "accent" in the different 

 districts. The Greenlanders themselves have a very good ear 

 for these peculiarities of dialect. 



The simplest way is merely to indicate the relative 

 height or depth of pitch by different accent-marks, as for 

 instance [àpvi], where ' means lower pitch, and ' means higher 

 pitch. 1 have used this system of designation (I) throughout 

 all my notes, yet not as obligatory, but only whenever the 

 musical accent of a word arrested my attention. In the following 

 remarks, I designate low pitch by i-, medium pitch by "i, high 

 pitch by l — Secondly (11), in some cases, I tried to determine 

 the pitch in terms of musical notes on the basis of the a-tone 

 of my tuning-fork, lioping in this way to get at the typical 

 tone-movements of the various dialects. Even if 1 did not 

 succeed in this, yet I managed to reproduce some of the 



