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has been taken", "the place where one flayed the skins off", 

 "the place where one j,'ot enough to eat", "the place where 

 one lor they) diefJ of hunger", "the place where the pastor 

 generally walks", "the place where the man heat his wife" lor 

 vice-versa?), "the place where stones were thrown", "the place 

 where the head generally has to be bent back" (that is in order 

 to look up), "the place where on waits for the seals or the 

 birds to become fat". 



All these names have to be expressed by whole sentences 

 in English; in Greenlandic there is only one word for each, 

 whose elements express every detail of the ideas. — Of special 

 linguistic interest are the examples of interjections used as 

 names: kakw (surprise), ik-e (shivering from cold), also the 

 names made up of verbal indicatives: nak'aleqcvq "now it is 

 falling" (i. e. a cliff) and awartarpa-4 "they broke the necks 

 of them". 



It must be added that there are of course many names 

 which can no longer be explained, either because they have 

 become corrupt in the course of time, or because they contain 

 archaic elements. 



The following place-names I took down at the different 

 settlements as 1 visited them, without stopping to investigate 

 their meaning at the time. In some cases it is only with hesita- 

 tion that I presume to suggest my explanation. Rapid and 

 careless pronunciation may have made the meaning uncertain. 

 But I leave it to others to furnish better explanations. 



I have not tried to make the list complete; on some 

 stretches of the coast, however, and especially in the Umanak 

 district there are not many omissions. But north of Upernawik 

 and in the northern part of Disko Bay I have only given very 

 few names. 



The names are g i \ e n in t li e order from north to 

 south following the coast of West Greenland iNorth Greenland). 



In the column to the left I use my phonetical orthography 



