254 



With the uomiiial suffix -araq little 



ПЩЩ south wind: ne.p'a:q a gentle <1 *nip'd:q «< *'"//>a'y <C *ni^raq 

 south wind ' <; *niqeraraq 



With the verbal suffix -umutvoq, which in the present Greenlandic 

 and Labrador dialects designates that something or someone is in a 

 certain state 



iterpoq wakens : erqiimatvdq is awake «< *irqtimawdq <C *itqumaivdq 



<C*itequmawoq 



iserpoq goes in : erqumatvoq has dived < *irqumatvdq <:i*isqumawdq 



down under <i*isequmawdq 



the water 



With the nominal suffix -ut or -it, which designates an instru- 

 ment with Avhich something is done, a reason, or the like: 



nimeq: nenniip-dq winds <c*>ii>'wup'dq<,*tnmrut2)dq<i*ninierutpdq 

 a baud itself about <C*)iimequfpoq 



something 



imeq: ermip'dq washes <,*irmi2rdq <i*imritp2q <С*гтеги2Щ 

 water himself in «< *imeqitp'dq 



the face 



atQvp^q: Qxqiip-Cf bx'm^s <^*aq-up-a- <,*atqiitpa- <i*ateqt(tpaa 

 he goes down it down 



Before leaving this subject, 1 shall stop to consider those 

 nominal ^-sterns (Greenlandic) in the formation of whose plural 

 a shifting of stress takes place, however, without that uvular- 

 izing of the inner part of the stem which might be expected. 

 Why does it fail to appear? I have already formerly mentioned 

 some of these cases (uiloq — uiX'ut etc. cf. pag.248), I suggested 

 the possibility that these words were not originally ç-stems, 

 but ended in -Ä-, so that there was really nothing to cause 

 uvularization. I did not mention the other difficulty which in 

 that case would still remain, namely the explanation of the 

 presence of the vowels ii and a in the plural ending instead 

 of г; for the only plural suffixes that we consider regular are 

 -t or -it. If the middle syllable should disappear from what 

 we suppose to have been the original plural form (*uiloqit), 



