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Language and Folklore. 
Break ha ha: 
(Drum up) amortogisath 1 Let us haul forward! 
amortogisah Let us haul forward! 
amorlogisah Let us haul forward! 
(Drum down) nuän’egah 2 How amusing it is! 
nuaneqah How amusing it is! 
` пиап`еда`В How amusing it 1$! 
(Drum up) satsach 3 Let us touch! 
sais ah Let us touch! 
satt sach Let us touch! 
Nores.— 1. According to Kuannia, the object is understood (sexual organ). 
— 2. ‘Amusing’ or ‘delightful.’ — 3. According to Kuannia sa'tita = sa:til'ino 
‘letting it turn forward (towards the other person), but according to Johan 
Petersen it is derived from sat'ip'a ‘feels someone or something with the 
hands’, while the sa'itis'a'h of the song should be = sdt-is‘a. The explanation 
advanced by Kuannia presupposes the word being derived from WGr. sa‘tip'a: 
‘turns him (it) with the front towards an other, gets him to turn his front 
this way.’ 
No. 156. Akkuleqaa"tit — You Are Cracking. 
Aleqaajik. 
The dancing woman goes along the platform from the one place 
to the next and sings the following words, with a summoning and 
alarming countenance, while she raises the drum at the first word 
and lowers it at the other. These words are repeated unceasingly. 
Drumming AN À ad ag! EN) A ТЯ à (etc.) 
ak:uleqa‘ "tit 1 You begin to crack 
anelagqa'”tit 2 You are quite separated. 
NOTES. — 1. = awit-aga-"tit (according to my informant’s explanation) 
‘you are quite separated from your wife’ (said to a man). — 2. = amererqa®ltit 
(idem) ‘you are quite separated from your husband’ (said to a woman). 
Kuannia on the other hand gave another explanation: < WGr. апо`грод, 
said of one who is greatly pressed by a call of nature and whose purgation 
takes place quickly and loudly under compulsion (‘you have violent purga- 
tion’). Cf. no. 147. 
No. 157. Tummarpoa — I Stamp. 
Keersagaq. 
I saw this dance and the following one performed at an evening 
festivity in the hut. Later on Keersagaq sang the text into my phono- 
graph (see Melodies no. 71). 
(Phon.) 
"Refrain 1: AU Je jaja: jaje' 
В! awa ра: Jaja jaja ja a 
