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meaning of niiji in this language is water. G anon g iv. s. p. 256) 

 tries to explain Sepisi(ßiit by the aid of the Micmac language 

 where we have the word Wtn-peg-ij-a-)iik, rough water, but this 

 seems less plausible. A. F. Chamberlain lin The Eskimo Hace 

 and Language. Proceed. Canad. Inst. Toronto 3. Series, Vol. VI, 

 1887 — 88, p. 2761 claims that this stem, which is found in many 

 Algonkin languages (>///;/, water ; nipa^ûie; sleep; night; mooni, 

 is a loanword in the West and Central Eskimo languages 

 (M. nipaluk, rain ; L. niptaipok^ cf. Gr. )nwtaip'oq, it snows; etc.); 

 but he has no doubt confused different stems. 



The Greenlandic word nipisa, a wolf-fish, which also occurs 

 in Labrador with the same meaning, is naturally to be connected 

 with the stem in the verb nipippoq^ hangs fast, sticks fast (like 

 porridge in a pot) etc. 



The ending -гщи is a common diminutive suffix in Green- 

 landic (in the plural) but it must be remembered that according 

 to the principles of the present language it would be irregular 

 for the final a of the stem-word {nipisa) to be changed to i 

 before this suffix. 



Tadoussak ip. 21). In Greenlandic tarfo (L. fakto), a kidney; 

 suffix -ussaq, resembling it. Cf. 2\irtu'ssaq (place-name) p. 337. 



ad p. 32. 



In a recently published work by A. A. Björn bo and Carl 



5. Petersen: Fyenboen Claudius Clausson Swart (Claudius 

 Clavus), Nordens ældste Kartograf. En Monografi. Avec un 

 résumé en français (Det Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, 



6. Række, historisk og filosofisk Afd. VI, 2. Kobenhavn 1904), 

 there is given an undoubtedly correct and final explanation of 

 the place-names in Greenland found on the old maps. It appears 

 that not only are they all Danish words which probably Claudius 

 Clavus himself has attached arbitrarily to rivers and promontories 

 along both coasts of the land, but also that when they are read 

 connectedly in the order in which they stand on the map, from 

 north to south along the east coast and from soulh to north 



