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seldom, plant-names: "the sea-weed", "the ferns", "sorrel", 

 "rhododendron", "angelica", "the moss" (for the wick of the 

 lamp), "grass", "the berries", and names of minerals: "iron", 

 "clay", "potstone", "grindstone". 



Of linguistic interest is the fact that all the ideas, the 

 psychological results of each observation, are always comprised 

 in one word in accordance with the whole structural tendency 

 of the language, this one word (the name) thus often expressing 

 several different ideas. This is the case in those names, of 

 which we have already given examples, where there are special 

 indications of quality combined with the chief idea, as for in- 

 stance: big, middle-sized, little; many, bad, good, etc. These 

 qualifying attributes are added by means of suffixes in so far 

 as such suffixes are to be found in the language. If the 

 language has no suffix with the desired signification, an in- 

 dependent word (generally a verbal participle) is used to express 

 the quality, while the main idea itself is merely implied, for 

 instance: "(the) blushing (one)" = the red mountain (land etc.); 

 "(the one) growing black" = the black mountain (land etc.) ; 

 "the uneven one" = the uneven island; "the flat one" = the flat 

 island. The meaning of the suffixes, in terms of the grammatical- 

 logical systems of our languages, may be either adjectival, 

 nominal (for instance -mA;, the place where; -lik, the person or 

 the place that has or where there is), or pronominal (especially 

 used possessively, for instance ata-a^ its below-lying, ксщга, its 

 within-lying, in-an-inward-direction-toward-the-land-lying, where 

 "its" {-a) refers to the most conspicuous or the most familiar 

 part of the land). Among the adjectival suffixes, there are some 

 which are obviously obsolete, occurring only in combination 

 with certain words (names), and whose meaning is now uncertain. 

 Such are the suffixes -na-q, -rwrsuk, -arsuk and -sus'uk^ which 

 are all translated by curious, peculiar, strange, unusual, but which 

 have probably formerly had more concrete meanings, -arsuk 

 and -rcrrsuk are much used in Labrador in combination with 



