306 W. THALBITZER. 
Hans Egede as played in the neigbourhood of the colony of Godt- 
haab on the west coast in the year 1729.1 
(Phon.) woman singing 
akaceK akace" aka! 1 Oh! How scandalous, how scandalous! 
uwana aka'ta:je' 2 I am the scandalous one. 
speaking-voice of a man 
anicika:k! anicika:k! 3 You who have lust for a man! 
asako naka:ta:ja! 4 Let us slip those down there down 
a little! 
atıtokatak-ı", at-ittokatak:i"! 5 Let me first touch them a little! 
woman’s enthusiastic outburst 
cum'iät a, cum'iät a, cum'iätta 6 Let us snuff, let us sniff and snuff! 
(The whole of the song is repeated several times) 
DD VaRIANTS. — 1 a-kasima-(r)ce M. — 2 ошапа Казта`гсе М. — 3 = A.— 
4 asak‘oa nakataja A. — 5 atitokätak'in. — 6 cum'iäta (repeated three 
times). 
Notes. — 1. See Kleinschmidt, dictionary р. 426, âkasik*à. — 2. i.e. I am 
one who gives rise to great indignation. — 3. Used of a woman who runs 
after men. — 4. a’sako The talk is of the woman’s short trousers (na‘tse:n). — 
5. agiwneranik ‘in the fork.’ — 6. Ajukutoog explained that this was the real 
exclamation (ga’tewarter) of the song. According to Kuannia this must be 
connected with sum'ip'oq ‘to sniff (like a dog) cf. suidt-dt-oq ‘to get the smell 
of something’, suin‘ip:og ‘here is scent of foxes.’ Kleinschmidt (1. с. р. 347) 
presumes that an unknown root (suk) may be the foundation of sorz'uk ‘the 
inner nostrils’, therefore in some meaning or other being related to the sense 
of smell. Kuannia described the meaning partly as sniffing (a challenge to 
sniff, or try the smell), partly as snorting (violently expel the air through the 
nose). The latter is the meaning of WGr.sorz-um:‘inarpog lit. ‘uses his sorzuk., 
EGr. ‘um'igarpoq > cum:idta ‘let us use our "suk. : 
No. 141. Nuliäkkaaq (II) — The Wretched Female. 
Ajukutoog. 
A man comes in in women’s clothes, and drum-dances while 
he sings: 
Refrain aja ga”na‘ja Ja ja 
Burden erne:ka-pala:quartarpoa 1 I am used to bear children as the 
poor wretched woman I am. 
NOTES.— 1. erne'"ka'q (according to my informant, the same as nuliåk'a'q) 
‘woman; female being’, lit. ‘one who with regular intervals bears a child.’ 
Cf. ernevra ‘my offspring’ (in the song on Ukuamaaq, no. 36). — As to the 
suffixes it is uncertain whether -pala'yuar is to be considered as belonging 
to the nominal stem (‘a little poor wretched’) or to the verb ending < -pala’r- 
poq ‘badly, wretchedly’ (ог = påt:åp:oq? ‘behaves as a —; or looks as a —’). 
1 H. Egede, Relation om Den Grønlandske Mission (1738) р. 252. 
