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41. [ц! > Å-] 'aifiliwdg > * сщЫгодд > [aÅ'iwoq] cf. p. ni 



42. [tu > П-] *swni(t)taTpit > [sumun-a\yit] 



43. [^w > w] *atmut > [awMi] *kis-ars-ü-tmik > [Ä;«s-ar- 



44. [^Ä; > Ä"] 



45. [iî^ > /г] 



I *nujsuira' 1 



46. [te > (î', ^'^J w 7 . .(?> nutsup-a- > [/ш^-*«рчг] (cf. 



KI. vocab. p. 258) 



47. [^/ > ;.•] *шаШо > [г"'>^-г7'о] *sy^/g > [sy/l-e] 



48. [mn > ^>r] *samna > [sa^'wa] 



49. [p?^ > "■//] *ki7iit'up7p-q sa'tie > [kiTiit-UTi'd-q some] 



*a-p?p-q > [«•«'^/•o-ç] 



50. [^лг > '^w-] 



51. [Я2, # > "î', "'^"J 



52. [2Я, pt > ^'-'z-, "Y-] 



53. [25S > '"s-] 



samples, see p. 150 



ad. 17 — 19. These examples do not really belong here, 

 since the assimilations which they show are not due to suffixing. 

 They are doublets which are used at random, although the 

 shorter assimilated forms are most frequent, -u before j becomes 

 [ù] or [г]. Yet qùjawoq (he thanks) never becomes qiawdq, 

 which would give a totally different signification (he weeps). 

 But Egede wrote qyavoq \q;üawdq] (= he thanks). 



ad 21 — 22. Double forms, used at random, though in 

 North Greenland the assimilated forms are most frequent. 



ad 23 — 30. The assimilation by which q becomes r before 

 a consonant is one of the most fundamental sound-changes of 

 the language. As formerly mentioned (§ 14), it also affects the 



*' becomes more and mure big (*rt3je), grows '^'^ whither are >ou going 

 *^ downward (at in casus terminaiis); stove (in the instrumental) ^^ jeriis it 

 to himself in little forcible jerks. *'' and (-/0) you, but (U) which '^'- [.sa""««] 

 he in the west. *^ Kirjitrjq, it is related, on its front side i. е.: in front of A'., 

 it is related; yes, it is said. 



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