204 W. THALBITZER. 
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artiwar tarliwar min'ijo'k 1 Looking upwards, murky sky, drizzle, 
tikergiwar ta’rlivar пит ок 2 The nook, murky weather, drizzle, 
artiar ta:rtiar 3 Looking upwards, murky sky, 
tikergiwarta'rtivar 4 The nook, murky weather. 
a”metuaga‘q 5 It is melting strongly (?) 
диадагИшада` q 6 (?) 
qic'ipuaq 7 (name?) 
IT. 
artivar tartiwar тт: .о-Е 8 
tikergiwar tarttwar тт’ ‘ок 9 The nook, murky weather, drizzle, 
3 Looking upwards, murky sky, 
Looking upwards, murky sky, drizzle, 
a‘rtiar ta:rtiar 
likergiwarta’rtiwar 4 The nook, murky weather. 
am:ut-än’ak 120) 
kuän'e-tänak 13 (2) 
terte tät 14 @ 
VARIANTS. — 1. a'rliwar ta rtiwar. — 4. tikergiwa ta'rtiwar. — 12-13. am'ut-- 
anak kuän'etän'ak. — 14. te'rtetän’ak (or -пад). 
NOTES. — 1. a’rliwar, about Фе appearance of the sky; according to Kuan- 
nia: ‘in expectation of good weather’, according to Sufia: ‘bad weather’ (or 
said of ап ugly face etc.). Nätseq explained this with a'rtigo'm'at “because he 
peeped upwards towards the sky’ (ef. WGr. a’rzorpog) — ta‘rtüvar ‘the great 
darkness’ or ‘very dark’, used, according to Kuannia, about a murky sky. — 
min'ij‘o'k (rhythmic form of minijuk), according to Kuannia and Sufia, from 
mine ‘drizzle. — 5. Kuannia took it as above, Sufia from an‘up'on ‘is in low 
spirits. — 6. Kuannia compared it with SWGr. quarsarnertuaga'g ‘is slippery’; 
Sufia would derive it from quara' (gogiaga‘), making it alike to quan-‘itsoqg ‘is 
discontented, in low spirits. — 7. Both Kuannia and Sufia knew this word 
as a proper noun. But K. was inclined to explain it here as a common word 
referring to SWGr. qisik (qicik) ‘the murky sky which is seen over the open 
water in the ice’, giciy'uag, here perhaps ‘a little open water in the ice.’ — 
12. am'ut-än'ak must be a compound of amut ‘downwards’ and -tän'ak, Е Gr. 
suffix cf. in the Labrador dialect -tannak ‘broad or thick.’ СЁ. am’uka’rpog ‘it 
is striped downwards, has stripes downwards’, am:ukarpog ‘goes downwards’, 
am'ut ak ‘vulva.’ Cf. no. 10, 1. 11. — 13. kuän'e‘tän°ak = penis?, cf. kujak ‘the 
chine’, ‘the loin.’ kujap:a: ‘(a man) lies with a woman’, and -t-dn-ak. — 14. The 
reciter and Kuannia agreed in explaining this word by making a smacking 
or cracking sound with their tongues. Cf. Labrador fertalukpok, tertipok etc. 
the sound of bubbling or boiling water. 
No. 14. The Children’s Ajagaq Game. 
Jooserpe A. Qiwinadaaq BX. 
I heard this song the first time while travelling northwards during the 
summer in an umiak, when a young lad (Umeerinneq’s son) on board began 
to hum it. I understood it at once to be a kind of children’s song. The last 
