188 W. THALBITZER. : 
NOTES. — 1. Sufia explained this word as arnamut piumasoq ‘one who 
wants to go to her mother.’ — 2. Both the informant and Sufia, each independ- 
ently of the other, understood this word as above stated, the former expressly 
connecting it with EGr. miliara (cf. WGr. тПир`а`) ‘(the child) sucks her, 
gets milk from her.’ In the language of the elder generation molo:- was often 
heard instead of milo:-. Kuannia would connect the word with muluwog ‘tarries’ 
as referring to the mother (‘а mother who has gone and tarries long’), but the 
long 0’ favours the former interpretation. — 3. Reciter’s variants qa'siy’a@'r or 
ga‘ tin’e'r. The interpretation is very uncertain. Teemiartissag just indicated the 
direction by looking towards another person. Kuannia thought that the word 
was identical with gawcera'r ‘the first wife’s fellow-wife, the husband’s second 
wife’; and Johan Petersen translated: ‘How pale he (or she) is! The phono- 
graph has qa‘icin'ia&). I surmise (in the DD text) gaiciy'er, answering to 
War. garisuk +-n'e°q ’say (or it is said), she shall come with it! — 4—6. These 
three words are closely connected, as is shown both by their form and the 
manner of delivery (rhapsodizing in a regular pitch). -lisaq is the passive 
participal ending (<-liwa') to designate the person exposed to the effectiveness 
of the principal verb: before this ending we have the suffix -fo--, ‘having or 
being much. — 8. gifiwa ‘the part of the body between the legs, the fork.’ 
nilatiwar = WGr. milässuaq (?) according to Kuannia ‘a large blue spot’, the 
pigment found on each real Eskimo child, as a rule quite low down on the 
back. (Sufia, < nir'ermal ‘because it was very cold’). — 11. Kuannia gave this 
explanation of the word < kut'ale'rga’in ‘are vou her little plague?’ the word 
used about children who continually whimper or cry to get something, also 
about wives who worry their husbands to get dainty food or more food, for 
example. 
No. 5. To a Little Girl whose Uncle suffered from the Itch. 
Qiwinaraaq (DD and Phon.). 
The contents of the song are given in the heading in accordance with 
Kuannia’s construction of them. To this I will add that the little girl has 
been named after her mother’s sister’s husband (who was called Qaanak?). 
When she scratches herself till her skin becomes red, this is understood to 
be a sign that she has inherited the inclination from her namefellow. She 
must be the one who speaks in lines 10—14 and 18—26. In the rest, many 
of the lines are (as usual in these songs) rather enigmatical. 
Lines 1—5 are uttered singing, line 6 is recited with fixed pitch, the rest 
of the poem is sung nearly all through on two notes, with rhythm in strict 
accordance with the form of the words. 
Sufia who otherwise did not know this petting song had heard the lines 
10—14 from an old woman who sang them to the children in her parents’ 
house. They were said to be parts of an old drumsong. 
ganayu akita: 1 Is she not the little Qaanak? 
am'artarnerte mane 2 Because he (or she) was the cause of her 
opening 
tap:artarne'rte: måne 3 Because he (or she) was the cause of her 
funnel-shaped hollow[?] 
