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Present forms Constructed forms Present forms 



24. [rriawoq] it is boiling > *hiasaq — [aa] > [nid.-q] 



25. [sdnawoq] works (with > *sanasaq — [aa] > \sån?cq\ 



the hands) 



that which is 



boiled 



that which is 



worked, the 



finished work 



There are perhaps half a hundred words in the language 

 which, just like these last ones, end in a long vowel -\- q 

 (especially in ?i:q]. There is some probability that a number 

 of them have originated in the same way as those here men- 

 tioned, namely by a reduction of sound and consequent assimi- 

 lation. Those ending in a'5^, for instance, may be assimilation- 

 compounds containing the diminutive -aq or araq^ cf. qajaq 

 -\- aq~> qajaraq^ ; qajaq -\- araq > *qajararaq >• qaja-raq (the 

 usual form)-. In other cases, a*^ may have originated from 

 the participial suffix -^Щч -^Щ etc. In other cases, again, 

 perhaps the form is merely due to the analogy of the forms 

 already developed. .Most words in the language have otherwise 

 a short vowel before the final consonant I shall cite most of 

 the examples that have a long vowel before q: 



na-wj'd'q'^ (cf. na'ivja(q))*; naia.-q^ (cf. natsq^) nalikdi-q'' 

 kuja'q^ (c(.kujak)^ knia-q'^'^ (ct kuiaq^^) ka-^^'s'ivq^'^, ka'"^'s^-q'^'^\ 

 karin'q^^ (cf. ka^ieq^^)', kana:q^^ qum^'q (also qmnaq)^'' qoqu'q 

 (also qoqaq)^^ qtri'A'q^^ (also q-j/aq)] iîiima'q^^ ÎTfah'q-^ ila'q-- 



'-' a little kajak ^ a little (beginning) kajak-rower ' young gull * gull 

 ■'■ an inserted bottom (in a barrel etc.) ^ floor ' place between the legs 

 (in trousers etc.) ** the stretching-sinews on the back of a Greenlandic 

 bow iwhich keep the bow stift); the keel of a vessel. ^* the lower part of 

 the spine, the loins ^° the black part of the snout on a harp-seal " face 

 '^ whirlwind " a top (toy) " place-name ^^ a promontary ^^ the .shin- 

 bone (from the knee to the ankle) '' a tape- worm, intestinal worm "* the 

 shadow of the land cast upon the water (in calm weather) ''^ the sharp 

 edge of the shin-bone, the bridge of the nose '" the jioint of an arrow 

 " a window ^^ a patch (sewed on). 



