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When two syllables in succession are quite or almost alike, 

 one of them is apt to be omitted in hasty articulation, so that 

 the one that remains behind must stand for them both (haplo- 

 logy). I have noted down the following examples (which are 

 in part very common) : 



qiacjinak^ > qiatiak iNqs.) 



ikitsisit^ > ikit'sit (Upern.) 



[ aniarpit 

 aniniarpit'^ > 



•' [ an-iarjjit 



usiserpa* > iis'erpcc (Nqs.) 



kaneniennik^ > kanevm-ik ilidb.l 



The examples which have been given of the plionetical 

 changes which take place in the present, living language serve 

 to throw light upon the original development of a number of 

 word-formations in the language; they fall into groups according 

 to the difierent ways they seem to have followed. 



I. By pure haplology. [г^"'/'Ш'Эс] (to spend or remain a 

 day or several days at a place) seems to have originated from 

 a form *u"'Å'uHndq. which would be regularly derived from 

 \u"'//oq\, a day. 



II. A word of originally three or more syllables has — 

 perhaps through a shifting of stress — lost the vowel in the 

 second syllable, whereby two consonants have come to stand 

 next to each other, and they have then become assimilated. 

 These consonantal assimilations agree perfectly with those 

 previously shown, which is a further support for the correctness 

 of tlie hypothetical intermediate forms. 



The relationship between the following words in Green- 

 landic, I base upon the hypothetical forms which I have given 

 as intermediate between them : (to the left, the current word 



' stop crying! (said to a little child) ' matches ^ are >ou going out? 

 * he loads the «hip '■ 'on account) of dew or hoar frost. 



