I 
—1 
Ya 
W. THALBITZER. 
ea, ea ke'rpiatalüma'rik: in 4 I would I might soon get you for 
foetus ! 
ea ki?t-etülin 5 You having your effect, 
ea ki?te-kuin 6 If you have your effect 
ea quaca'rtarima'ri®kin 7 I would I might get you for a new 
child! 
ki’t-e-stimtk: пот 8 When you have had[?| your effect 
ea, ea nun-ettiginariimarik:in 9 I would I might soon be narrowed 
ea, ea (delivered) by means of you. 
NOTES. — 1. It is not clear from what root the word kaliter or kaaiıer 
is to be derived — irrespective of this formula, my informant gave me the 
form of the word thus: katiterner, showing me a spherical stone. — In it we 
probably have a combination of two verbs katilip'ai and katersorpai ‘unites, 
gathers them.’ The word might signify ‘a stone which has been gathered in 
a heap of several similar stones, a choice stone’ [?]. Spherical stones are 
found only rarely in the soil of Greenland, and are therefore kept as amu- 
lets. — 2. ke'rpia (rare word) probably comes from the same stem as WGr. 
kinerfip'ok ‘carries something before one’, either on the hand, on the arms, in 
the turned up lower part of the anorak, or in mother’s lap. — 5-6. Curiously 
enough, Kuannia wanted to connect this word with WGr. kiz:o:p:a: 1) ‘dis- 
closes something to another, betrays him of it, 2) ‘envies another, harms 
him by reason of envy.’ This is certainly wrong. The word is the well known 
WGr. ki’Lip:og, semi-transitive ki®L'ewoq, see Chr. Rasmussen, Ordbog (Til- 
læg) р. 27, and must be translated as above. — 9. nunup:a: ‘narrows it (a part of 
dress etc.), takes it in by means of a fold’; intr. ‘is narrowed’ 1. e. ‘delivered.’ 
No. 90. Amulet Stone for a Pregnant Woman (Il). 
Teemiartissag. 
Formula to be said over a pregnant woman’s amulet. The narrator 
called it merserten pula'wa'rita, ‘an expedient whereby the child is en- 
abled to creep into (the womb).’ 
Creep in! 
Let me now get you for my foetus! 
As you begin to accustom yourself 
to creep in 
I have ceased to menstruate. 
ea ea Капалегт 5 You round (rare) stone! 
ea ea gila’ awata'nik ak-erin 6 Come hither from beyond the heavens! 
7 Creep into my inside, 
ea ea pulania: it 
ea ea kia'"piarlertagin 
ea ea ршаша ег т 
CO № — 
Ha 
ea ea kan:'erut'oa 
ea ea Цигиу pulagin 
ea ea ki”t-”e ıulin 8 Having your effect. 
NOTES. — 3. -wa: is presumably = WGr. -ua (-uarpoq) ‘continuous, con- 
stant’. — 4. Explained by the narrator by a’na‘ninartiwa. — 6. awata’ may 
indicate the heavens’ further side, or the space on the other side of the 
vault (or the sea beyond the horizon?) 
