Language and Folklore. 185: 
argaliwa nila: 5 She is not my child’s brother — 
ajana 6 But she is mother’s sister! 
qatanania 7 Crook-backed (as she was), 
uteqiät an 8 Stammering 
piteüät ay 9 Restless in all her movements — 
ut a nidn wa 10 From early morning wishing but to fall 
in with menfolk, 
quät Va nidn twa 11 She tries to outwit them, the little creature— 
ajä uva 12 See how she raps with her hands, 
gean wa 13 Hear how she whimpers — 
a'’p-a‘lekuc:ono-a 14 Hey! How she can run! 
VARIANTS.— 1 a’piya DZ, a pina ABX. suka: pin‘itsen A, -tser DX. -tse BZ 
— 2 amiätayila XY, -gila A, -nila D, -уЦаг В, amiàät'apila(je) А — 
3 gumidta pila D, -Uai Z, qumidtagila AX, qupiätapilar. B — 4 ana:- 
napila ADX. ana na mita В, -kita’ Е — 5 arqaliway'ila DEX(Y), argaliw- 
ay'ila À, ag'aliwamita В — 6 ajana D, ajäy'a À, ajara BXY, ajawa, ajawa' 
(Y) Z —7 qatayania AE, galarania B(X)Y, gasapania DE (Х, galérani™a Z) — 
8 utegidtan, tak D, -ta У, ul-e-reatar, -re"tar B, utereten A, uteridqudt-aq 
xX, ОР М — 9 piterudt ar, -tag В, -tak У, piterial Z, piterve:te‘n A, 
pit eriaqudtaq X — 10 utaniäy'iwa Е (У), ul'apläy'iwa A, ибатаупоаг X, 
otanidniwa У, utaliäyua Z — 11 quätiwaniän'iwia Е, quätawiniän'iwa A, 
quäcianiän'iwa У, qüät'iariän'iwar X, quätualiäk Z — 12 ajäy'iwa ABE, -iwar 
DXZ — 13 ge äp'iwa ©, -iwa У, -iwar В, -qiän'iwa A, -iwar DX, аут Z; 
sulunua Е — 14 aparlükucuy'ua Е, -иад D, ap'alukucoÿ'uar A, apalukucu- 
(kuaq?) В, ap-alukucoyn‘uar X, a'pa’lukuc'o'po'ar Z, apalu(k’ ort')inua У. 
Nores.— 1. suka’, according to Kuannia ‘a woman, young or old, who 
tries to please or tempt men with her coquetry’ (im'inut kusaranermik ke:- 
natinut kusanalono). Here used about the child. — pin‘ilseq was explained as 
‘untouched’ (at-aninarter С, cf. ge‘iay'e’ ase‘rian'im'at D explaining the same 
word; cf. note 3 pin'ila). — 2. Apparently derived from amerpa: ‘rubs it over 
with colour, paints it (Kuannia understood, in part wrongly, that the talk 
was about her palegray or bloodless countenance, gasinogim:at a:‘orqan:im:at), 
so perhaps, literally ‘He has not yet coated her with his colour’, or, if we 
follow the variants which interpret the word as ending in г (<q) ‘she is not 
one who has been coated with (a man’s) colour, cf. the following line, which 
varies the same idea. C gave me an explanation which hints at quite another 
comprehension (eta: quileg ‘her appertinent — [?] urinated,’ cf. Sufia’s explan- 
ation in the following note). — 3. Here I am inclined to follow the В variant 
(qupi-), which indicates that ‘he has not yet cleaved her (i. e. her vulva), or 
‘she is not yet one who is cleaved’, which agrees with the explanation and 
addition of D (which possibly concerned line 2), mam'iarmik ‘with his semen’; 
by this explanation light might perhaps be thrown on the meaning of ge‘iane: 
(D) in the note to 1.1 (‘the seat of sexual desire’?, namely derived from WGr. 
4е`р`04? ‘dies from desire or longing for an unattainable enjoyment). Most of 
the variants, meanwhile, are formed with -m- (qum'i), which rather make us 
think of words like WGr. дипир`04 (trans. suff. -пр`а`) ‘draws his arm back 
into the sleeve (and with it something else)’ or possibly qum'uätaq ‘a cylin- 
drical funnel-shaped high vessel.’ Sufia understood 2 and 3 as: ‘she has not 
