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Godthaab (64° N. lat.).! — The change is limited to certain words 
while others have retained their u unmolested, e. g. 
EGr. © WGr. 2 Gr, 02 = WC, 
aqiwa — aqua ‘the stern of a boat.’ ulua ‘stoneblade (weapon head). 
sikin — sikut ‘ice’ (plural). pujak ‘old blubber.’ 
ilimo:rpoq — ilumo:rpog ‘is turned inwards to | tloquta’ ‘his liver.’ 
oneself; is honest.’ 
ise’ p°a — usiur’a ‘what a surprise — I had | nusup'a’ ‘pulls at it.’ 
thought.’ | 
$ 29. — The same applies to e and о as to i and и: 
EGr. e ,WGår. 0 | EGr © == Wr, 
ite — IL'0O house’ | isoquta: ‘a knob on the end of a shaft.’ 
aje”y'llag — ajon'llag ‘is not bad, is good.” | C0'a ‘the foremost part of it.’ 
erqerpara — егдограга I hit it: nu?k"”oq ‘dried meat.’ 
ег “erler — en-ortog ‘singing.’ orgumul ‘to the south.’ 
ge'rpik — qiorrik ‘a cutting board.’ O‘y'utoq (name of a mountain). 
q0'q ‘urine.’ 
In several cases the EGr. dialect has double forms, е. 5. -n-e-q 
or -yo:q ‘it is said.’ 
S 30. — There are even cases which are quite the reverse and 
contrary to the rule, and where the East Greenland word shows the 
u-form as against an 1-form in WGr., е. g. 
E Gr. (Amm.) nipup'on — W.Gr. nipip'0q ‘adheres to’; 
» oquman'erpon — » ogimanerpog ‘has a nightmare.’ 
Quantity and Change of Quality. 
$ 31. — (-) A dot at the top after a sound means that it is long. 
(:) Two dots after a vowel that it has double length and, as a rule 
undulating accent. 
The long (geminated) sounds last twice as long as the short, 
вата Ее тещез № ар ера’ Бе ‘сопееа № for hin, keeps it 
secret’; ИА-пое: ‘а thimble guard’; te wa: ‘he takes it, holds it in his 
hand’ (= WGr. tiguwa:); te--miag ‘that which one holds in his hand.’ 
Most of the consonants and the vowels may be both long and short. 
A long sound is not unfrequently shortened in EGr. by the word’s 
suffixation or merely owing to quick speech where such an abbre- 
viation would not occur in WGr., e. g. anake-tulerpon ‘he begins to 
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1 Schultz-Lorentzen was the first to call attention to this (“The Immigration of 
the Eskimo” in “Medd. om Grønland”, 1904, vol. 26, p. 305 seq.). He has also 
shown that many of the expressions peculiar to the East coast are (or have been) 
in common use in the South-dialect of West Greenland. A further contribution 
that will prove particularly useful to EGr. lexicography has been rendered later 
by P. Vibæk (in Medd. om Grønland, vol. 33). 
