220 W. THALBITZER. 
navkia malergia nawkia mvana- 7 The harpooner, the pursued seal 
qwia[?) N 
nuliara nudna'piwa- nulia uwaninua- 8 (A) My wife [I only like her a little]? 
gara А ke'rke'rge 
nuliara nudäniniwa- » (B) My wife, do you perhaps only like 
ge'rge'n В her a little? 
VARIANTS. — 7 na’wkia maler/ria В. nawkiargiarpa C. 
NOTES. — 1. af'åt eq = WGr. at-at-o-q, literally ‘the one with many de- 
signs (on the skin)’, i. e., a two or three years old seal. Here, possibly, a man’s 
name? The termination -ma‘n is here probably a sort of vocative ending cf. 
WGr. pissuma‘k ‘halloo you up there! (Kleinschmidt, Ordbog р. 294). — 2. The 
name of this species of whale, WGr. tika:gut-ik (Lat. Balaenoptera rostrata, 
cf. H. Winge in “Medd. om Grønland” vol. 21, pp. 490—492) was also commonly 
used in East Greenland (according to Johan Petersen); it is caught only rarely 
by the Greenlanders. — 3. According to J. Petersen this line should mean ‘do. 
you for the first time come to make my acquaintance?’ (variant B), cf. WGr. 
takorniup'aæ. | read -im:a instead of -im:at; Kuannia, on the other hand, pre- 
ferred the A form which he derived from takan'a + a verb(?) thus: ‘when 
he (the seal) went down’ (= arqariartagim:at). — 4. The explanation is very 
doubtful. The form in В, with the termination -pice'ce: (as against X's -n'ikilik) 
— which seems to contain the negative suffix — may perhaps be compared 
with WGr. -p’itsuse ‘you not doing—’ (X -n'ikile ‘would he would not—’) or 
with -n'isoise (< n'isuwise) ‘do you wish not to—’ or ‘are you not to—. As 
to the stem of the word Kuannia presumed that uiler- (< uisa—?) was con- 
nected with the verb uip'oq ‘he begins (-ler) to open his eyes wide with sur- 
prise’ and Sufia was of the same opinion. But the other variants have forms 
with (short) u before [: ule-, which rather point to verbs like ulerpa:. ulerup'ai 
‘does not see it distinctly’, ‘they go astray, lose their way’ or to ulip'oq ‘is 
covered by the river-water (or something similar)” Johan Petersen would 
connect the word with WGr. o:lip:oqg ‘shivers (from cold or fear)” — 5. As to 
the ending it is the same as in the preceding word. Johan Petersen connected 
the stem with (WGr.) ge‘lerpon ‘is dying from longing’ (A). В has kileqiler- < 
WGr. kis’ergisi(wog)? — 7. na’kiarpa: ‘casts the harpoon after the animal.’ 
malereq ‘a pursued aquatic animal. Is С na‘wkuia‘p qajarpa Naa’kuiaak’s 
‘large kaiak’?; or nawkiargiarpa С ‘he was just on the point to harpoon 
it (the seal)’? 
No. 23. The Salmon-trout. 
Qiwinaraaq A. Natseq BX. 
A 
aæ kana kane 1 Ah! See down there the salmon-trout 
na'rtiwalin 2 With its fat stomach (full of roe), 
qatit iwalin 3 With its great dorsal fin, 
na'rtiwartiwale: 4 With its great fat stomach, 
qatit iwale: 5 With its great dorsal fin. 
særgitin tak: a 6 My dear little harpoon-weapons 
qinarnak 7 How provoking! [?] 
