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§ 21. — I is frequently used in EGr. In some words it occurs 
occasionally, in other words constantly in the place of the WGr. $, e. g. 
EGr. Ша — \Сь usar ‘his eye; the eye of a needle.’ 
>» ARE] — » a’saq ‘summer.’ 
» qgiliwin = »  qisuil ‘drift-wood’ (plural). 
» -leq = » -504 verb ending (participle). 
» pusinaleg == »  pusinasoq ‘one lying with bottom up; а snail.’ 
[ is certainly as a rule a voiced sound, but once in a while it 
occurs unvoiced or weakly voiced, e. g. nilak ‘freshwater ice’; qilak 
о | о 
‘sky’; I is about the same sound as the following y. 
$ 22. — y is a tip of the tongue г (unvoiced), somewhat similar 
to the English. It occurs sometimes in WGr., but rather more fre- 
quently in EGr. where in a number of cases, though mostly sporadic- 
уе 16 takes) the place) of the WGr. 6 s’or I, e..g. 
EGr. aléq — WGr. atéq ‘name.’ 
) GO SON == › ata'”seq ‘one.’ 
» alerpa’ = » аюгра` uses it.” 
» tara — >) ta'ta' ‘his servant.” 
>» хода — »  tasiusaq  ‘lake-like bay’ (cf. § 23). 
» проема = » 100094 ‘window.’ 
OCP HRSG == » na’lersog ‘increasing’ (the moon). 
S 23. — s occurs partly as a single consonant, initially or between 
two vowels, partly in connection with ¢ and с (ts, cs), in the latter 
connection often slightly palatalized (but with the blade of the tongue 
pushed forward, cf. $ 18). In fs it is rather tensely articulated, other- 
wise somewhat loosely. 
The loose $ sometimes passes into a loose / (unvoiced?) or 4 (À, 
e.g. one hears Täse-‘lar or Tåse "ar beside the regular Tdse-:saq ‘a 
lake-like bay’ (the name of a small fiord at the colony), sometimes 
also Tdse--tag. Very rarely a (weakly) voiced s is heard, е. g. in the 
very same last mentioned, Tdze--var. 
At times ап $ drops out between two Г5, e. g. uk-e--csaq (or 
uk-isicsaq) = WGr. u”k-usis’aq ‘potstone’; kia‘ie, instead of kisia'ie “what 
is it, how wretched’, from kiséq ‘what + rajik “ugly, wretched.’ 
$ 24. — р (cf. also under f) is very common as an initial and 
intervocalic sound, but extremely rare as a final sound. The relative 
case that in WGr. is formed with -p is formed in EGr. with p or m. 
Occasionally I have heard an intervocalic р changed to m, in amergit 
instead of the regular aperqit ‘oracle spirit. 
