Fig. 38. Children on the beach behind their father’s kaiak (July 1906). 
VARIANTS of В. — 2 -ragan un. — 3 eogag:ajapllag. — 8 (= nilit-en). — 
10 imerpala:nu’ale. — 11 qip'ivale:. 
NoTEs. — 1. It looks as if the usual argaliwa ‘a woman’s younger brother’ 
has here got a pleonastic suffix -rqat ‘a companion, peer’ whereby it has 
become argalergata; but the termination -le‘ra seems nevertheless to have 
been taken from the non-suffixed stem, inasmuch as argaliwara ‘my younger 
brother’ might very well be assimilated to arqale:ra. It is a metathesis of an 
unusual kind. — 3. If -qaja: corresponds with WGr. -rqaja: it should mean 
‘scarcely’, a strange application here; another shade of meaning is probably 
to be found in the EGr. suffix, not yet understood. — 4. I follow Sufia’s trans- 
lation that assumes a corruption in аЁегт (t instead of the f as in the next 
line). Kuannia had translated literally: ‘you alone observe the fasting custom’, 
and, in analogy, in 1. 5: ‘I will not observe it” — 5. leyi = ley-i < ler(pon) 
‘intends to.’ — 8-9. My reciters presumed that there might be talk about a 
spring, a river with splashing water, a little pond, or bubbling water in a 
pot. Kuannia imagined that in»-lines 9-13 there is question of the forbidden 
kinds of food which the mother had mentioned to her daughter. — 10-13. The 
terminations Le: and fe: in these words are not to be interpreted with certainty. 
Are they plural forms of -lik ‘having, with’, or have they an emphatic char- 
acter: ‘how!’ (how it splashed!)? Or is the final vowel in them lengthened 
from e: -le — -le ‘both — and’ as in 12 -@: from -НК? — 11. gin-iwa may mean 
1) ‘the head of a fjord’, 2) ‘a hole in the ground’, especially between the blocks 
and pebbles in a heap of stones. — 12. ‘A little (dear) place where one puts 
or hides an amulet.’ — 12-13. Sufia understood these lines thus that the mother 
has a hiding place for her amulet in ge'rpiy'uag which, however, she would 
not have read as in the recorded form, according to which it can only mean 
a woman’s ‘little cutting board’ < qe'rpik (First Part, fig. 266), but as an error 
for qipin:uåt ‘tent-pole’ where it is more customary to hide an amulet. 
