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SWAl. 







SGr. 



tingluwamkin 



I fist 



thee 



tiÅ-up-a"'k-it 



tingluwamche 



I „ 



you 



tiÅ'up'a'^s-e 



tingluwaqpunga 



thou „ 



me 



tiX'up'arma 



tingluwaqpukut 



thou ,, 



us 



иА.-ир'аЧ-щи1 



tingluwamthn*) 



we 



thee 



ЫХ'ир-аЧ'ци 



tingluwamtche 



we „ 



you 



tiX'up-a^se 



tingluwaqpcheä 



you „ 



me 



tiX'up-a^'siTia 



tingluw aqp ch ekut 



you „ 



us 



UÅ'up-a^'siqut 



*) i.e. [tiTiluwamtihin]? 







The noun from which these verbal forms are derived is 

 lost in Greenlandic, but is preserved in the Alaska dialect, 

 where I find tingluka = my fist. Still the Greenlandic verb 

 is formed with the special East Eskimo derivative suffix p, so 

 that it seems as if the noun must at some time have existed 

 in the East Eskimo language. This is also indicated by the 

 fact that the p is geminated, that is, it is an assimilation of 

 two consonants, probably kp^ the к having been the final con- 

 sonant of the noun CtiX'uk). With regard to the Greenlandic 

 /• in the middle of the word , comparison with the western 

 form shows that it has originated from ril (as probably Ике- 

 wise aÅ'iwoq, becomes bigger, grows, from *a7iUwoq , which is 

 made up of a^i-, big, and -liwoq, increases, becomes more so). 

 The possessive suffixes in the above examples begin in the Al. 

 forms after the syllable -wa, in the Gr. forms after -pa, which 

 represents those suffixes whose efl'ect is especially verbalizing. 

 Three of the commonest sound-transitions between the two 

 languages are immediately seen on comparing the suffixes, 

 namely the transitions between Al. w, n and к on the one 

 side and Gr. w , t and g' on the other side. Especially the 

 last — ^ > g (voiced) between two vowels — is characteristic. 



It would lead us to digress too far to analyze all the suf- 

 fixes here, but I cannot deny myself the pleasure of taking up 



