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‚ uilia rhwilte 
8 Both great young ones of mussels |?] 
kanïwartivit e 9 And great young ones of sea scorpions. 
um: an A 10 See that down there 
takan: a 11 The sand-gaper! 
awam'un 12 Outward 
garciwa: 13 Its lip(s) 
wac dia’ 14 Its eyes 
sicup’ an 15 Are they distended? 
B X 
awamun awamon — — — 
wätsäta шаёаЁа: CR NA SRN 
tak:ån:a: Ttakan'a 
тира  sup:a mad ae 
garciwa = gartsiwa 
Notes. — 1. kan'e'r ‘salmon-trout’, cf. NWGr. kaniog (plur. kan-isut) ‘sea- 
scorpion (in Е. Greenland, а sea-scorpion is called nät'ito‘r). — 3. Most pro- 
bably from даЁа ’the fish’s dorsal fin’ (cf. WGr. qaz'ineq). — 7. ‘How provok- 
ing’, viz. the fact that I have forgotten the weapon. Kuannia thought that 
the word should be corrected to gip’ewrne (< qin'e) ‘in (amongst) the small 
stones. — 8. The word most resembles WGr. uilog ‘mussel’, from which it 
might be derived, but Kuannia objected that the Ammassalikers did not use 
this word, mussels being called kile'tin in their language; he therefore pro- 
posed correcting the word to иПеге`ПилЁе < uilere tit'twik “the spot one aims 
at with the down-turned harpoon or bird-spear.’ This alteration seems to me 
too daring; the recorded form might answer to uilerag ‘a sort of small mus- 
sels’ with the suffixes -rajiq ‘small, wretched’ + -{uvaq ‘great’ (in plural) + 
-le ‘and’, and this word be an obsolete (tabooed) expression preserved in the 
poem. — 9. kaniwartiwit'e. Kuannia compared this word with WGr. kanio- 
rdtsatt ‘young of sea scorpions’ (in EGr. otherwise kaniua‘rtiwin). — 11. 
takan:a: also means ‘sexual organ. — 14. According to Kuannia = ‘its up- 
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raised —’ (“one says wäcät'iniaruk ‘lift it a little, turn it up (a flat stone for 
example)’ = map'ertino”). But Sufia explained it = uic'ät a: ‘its eye.’ — 15. Re- 
lated to sipit‘ino ‘separate something which is connected, so that a rift occurs; 
get it to gape (e. g. in order to put a wedge in). Cf. WGr. siws’ap'ut ‘they 
spread apart at one end while they are collected at the other.’ 
No. 24—36. POEMS ON KAIAK-MEN, EXPERIENCES, NATURE ETC. 
No. 24. The Kaiak Man’s Abandoned Wife. 
Teemiartissaq АХ. 
In this song two persons carry out a loud-voiced dialogue (cf. nos. 25 
—26). The one (a woman?) must be thought of as being on shore, on the 
rock, and the other as being a kaiak man who by chance comes paddling 
past. Some of the words of the dialogue are repeated three or four times, 
perhaps to illustrate the difficulty of the two speakers in understanding each - 
other’s words by reason of the distance. Lines 11-12 are, as it seems, borrowed 
from the conclusion of no. 27 and line 10 may be compared with no. 25 1. 6. 
