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L. perngâk one who does something for the first time — Gr. pernaq, 



peniaq 

 L. arngoak an amulet — Gr. ci'rmiaq — SGr. arngvoak (Egede) 

 L. uerngarpok is sleepy — Gr. u^ernarpoq — SGr. uérngarpok 



(Egede) 



The vowels agree on the whole in the two dialects. The 

 Labrador language, like the Greenlandic, has in many words 

 the combination uj. But in some cases Greenlandic [uj\ and [üj] 

 corresponds to Labrador [iv] , a characteristic phonetical inter- 

 change of the consonantal and vocalic articulations , which 

 Kleinschmidt has already called attention to (Gr. § 7). 



L. NGr. SGr. NWAl. 



ivalo a sinew ujalo eival'oo, еуаЧо 



ivajârpâ he steals it ujaja'rpa' 



sivapa he roasts it skip'Cf sujap'a' 



sivanerpok it sounds, rings sijdnerpoq sujdnerpoq 



sivo the front part, prow sijo sujo she^wa 



(cf. SWAl. sevåHoå I emerge from the woods etc.) 



The Greenlandic forms with suj- I know chiefly from Klein- 

 schmidt and literary Greenlanders ; in North Greenland, I heard 

 as a rule the forms with sij-. But my investigation of this 

 sound-formation is not finished. A comparison between the 

 Greenlandic and Labrador forms might lead us to suppose that 

 the w- and J-sounds in these words are merely secondary sounds 

 or glides which have originated later in the hiatic stems. 



Interchange of i and м, i and a, takes place in the fol- 

 lowing examples : 



(г — u\ L. issivsukpok whispers — Gr. isuwsup'oq 

 [i — «I L. tarijok salt — Gr. tanijoq 



{(I — i\ L. ikajorpa he helps him — Gr. ikiorpcr 



It will be seen that most of these differentiations in sound 

 occur in the stem-words of the everyday language; of course 



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