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personal names to form pet-forms: the dear little thin^ iBoun]. 

 Gr. §493); I have also found it in North Greenland in personal 

 names [Atara'rsuk, Unara'rsuk). The suffixes -?:nk and -ka^saq 

 signify something like evil, abominable, damned, but the latter 

 of these suffixes generally seems to have a humorous tinge ; 

 in combination with personal names, it half converts thorn to 

 pet-forms, -useq is adverbial and means: approximately; -ne</ 

 and -Åe-q are superlative suffixes, the latter to be combined 

 only with words expressing direction (locality), for instance 

 kariikeq, the one farthest over toward the interior of the land. 



Of special importance in place-names is the suffix -usaq, 

 "which resembles -". that is to say, the word to which it is 

 added is not to be taken in the usual way, but is merely to 

 indicate a resemblance, as for instance ikerusaq, the one that 

 resembles a stump-bed, that is a ledge in the mountain-side 

 (which looks like a stump-bed). 



We now come to those names which do not simply 

 refer to some peculiarity in the place but which owe their 

 origin to the play of the imagination, as when mountains are 

 called "shoulder-like", "kidney-like", "heart-like", "tongue- 

 like", "udder-like", "excrement-like", "nose-like", "boot-like", 

 "mouth-like", or when islands are called "sleeve-like", "floor- 

 like", bays and inlets, "lake-like" etc. Very graphic is the 

 name pertuia-"sa, "one that resembles a capsizing boat". 



To a different class, again, belong the names where only 

 the object that the place is compared to is expressed, the idea 

 "-like" being implied, or rather left out. These metaphorical 

 names only occur sporadically. We have them in the case of 

 mountains that are called "the toupees", "the horns ', "the 

 comb", "the drill", "the blubber-bag", "the shade for the eyes', 

 "the neck", "the stomach", "the liver", "the big hip", "the 

 snub-nosed one", "the snout (of an animal), "the hair of the 

 (seal's) whiskers", "the lips (of the reindeer)". Unusually 

 graphic are "the one that draws his stomach in very much" 



