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and broad as the bond which unites the Labrador language to 

 Greenlandic. That is shown by the following examples, which 

 are analogous with those previously mentioned (uvular -|- 

 another consonant). 



I shall give some examples of series of words where the 

 two eastern dialects have gone the same way, so far as 

 can be seen from existing forms common to both. 



In the examples that I give first, both dialects have strongly 

 assimilated forms, so that it cannot be seen directly if metathesis 

 has taken place before the process of assimilation or not. 



L. NAl. (WestEskimo) 



uguk ug'ru bearded seal 



igsuk semeu i^ggt'U testicles 

 virile 



kogjuk kug'ru swan 



tamadsa tamuz^ra is here 



nakset nazruk (Kelly) ab- 



domen 



When we remember the previously cited Labrador forms 

 with the group [rg] and its assimilation to [/], we realize that 

 it is possible that these last mentioned East Eskimo forms too 

 may have contained an r (before g, j or s) and have had a 

 common origin in a group where the usual metathesis is carried 

 out. This will be confirmed later by some similar cases. 



Even more distinctly do we see the nature of this East 

 Eskimo bond of relationship in the following examples : 

 Gr. & L. Al. 



[rn, ГЦ nr, 7ir\ 



Gr. L. SWAl. 



qitornaq child kittorngak child katunra (Barnuiu)*) sou 



orna his armpit (unninga) йи^ка armpit 



Gr. 



L. 



NAl. Gr. 



k- 



- V-ÎS 



is'uk 



qus'uk 



tamas-a 



na-q, plur. 

 näs'ät 



•) The Eskimo of Port Clarence. Alaska: qitunyaq (boy), cf. Boas in Journ. 

 Amer. Kolk-lore VII, p. 207. 



