124 | W. THALBITZER. 
р’ replaces regularly the WGr. к’, е. g. ира = WGr. ur-a ‘there 
(it is’ Gn EGr. the meaning is changed to ‘is it so? possibly’); but 
in the district around Cape Farewell the WGr. к has passed into К, 
see under k (§ 15, foot-note). 
.$ 25. — w is the voiced bilabial. In EGr. the w is often left out 
in the 3d person singular of the verbs, indicative, -o7 instead of -won, 
e. g. toquog = WGr. toquwog ‘is dead’, па‘о = WGr. na:woq ‘grows’, 
neon ог ne"won == WGr. neriwog ‘eats. On the other hand w is 
often generated as a gliding sound in EGr. after an original u which 
here becomes an 1, e. g. Шира = WGr. ilua ‘his or its inside’, or after 
the loss of an intervocalic п, as the remains of an original и, e. g. 
ewin = WGr. inuit ‘the human beings.’ Altogether there occur in 
Е Gr. a number of cases of labialized consonants (exponent ”) where 
the labialization is simply the remnant of a u changed to 7 or an o 
changed to e, which still like an immortal soul hovers round the 
consonant immediately following, e. g. Tdse-"l°ar < WGr. Tdsiusaq; 
ета — WGr. ir:ora “my cousin’; erge”r”iga < WGr. er:origa Т 
who wash it.’ 
Vowels. 
$ 26. — Among the uvularized vowels there occur in EGr. besides 
the otherwise wellknown er, or and or timbres, more closed (“high”) 
shades also, approximately ir and ur, sounds probably attached to a 
representation of the more primitive sound aimed at, e. 5. qurtulurpon 
‘it drips (everal times)’ instaed of gortulorpon (WGr. -sorpog). 
Vowel harmony is a phenomenon of sporadic occurrence in 
(CHE, Ss Gos 
Text по. 270, 1.4-5. Suffix -¢'j(oq) ‘also’ in: The suffix -70°q (r0'9) or -me:q ‘is said’, in: 
etwoa ‘I long’ — e'iytjoa T—also'  Qa'ta'jun'0'q ‘Qatajuk is said’ (Text 192) 
o‘luiwoa ‘I whimper’ — o'lupujoa ‘I — co'ro'n “why, is said (asked)’ 
also’ sunane q, wn'ane'q, o'an‘e'q ‘what, yon, 
I, is said’ 
S 27. — i and à belong together being just slightly varied tones 
of the same sound. The rounding of the lips by ü and the shades 
(0, ö) lying further back is only slight, and all these timbres are 
about as nearly related to the mid-vowels as they are to the pure, 
ish i and 02 sounds © 2 EGE PE mn (but more otten 12810) = 
WGr. i®r:it ‘thou (you)’;. @зйп-ада-" = WGr. tustinaga-°q ‘he is envi- 
able’; Нс-бада = WGr. ti2s-inaga°°q ‘it is fun, comical.’ Cf. $ 9. 
$ 28. — 1 occurs frequently, и less frequently than in WGr., be- 
cause г throughout East Greenland has superseded и in a great many 
words and suffixes. This tendency has gone round Cape Farewell 
and has reached all the way up to the southern neighborhood of 
