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ninarticimate:ma 7 I was the cause of your having 
become jealous, 
isimaca'initseq 8 There is one who shows no sign 
ninala'iik”ara' 9 That she has begun to grow jealous. 
VARIANTS (Phon.). — 4. umiåt pikilewite argitilajege‘. — 7 (4). umia 
pikilewitå qiitita'ieqin. 
Notes. — 1. WGr. sas'up'a ‘confronts one angrily, attacks one.’ — 4. WGr. 
arqutitip:a: ‘lets it be carried down—.’ — 5. -terma < tigigim'a. — 7. In the 
phonogram line 4 is repeated here. 
No. 178. A Disavowal of Suspicion. 
AakWkaaq. 
Refrain æ jaja ia"ja 
palasonuatap:oa 1 I bowed my head (from grief) for a little time, 
cikisonudtap:oa 2 I lowered my face towards the ground fora time, 
cogutit a'’tarmata 3 When the drum-singers had departed. 
tusaniwarqartitwa 4 Then only I understood — 
tusaniwargqa'rtono 5 Then only I understood this, 
6 That they thought I would steal another’s spouse, 
7 That they thought I would take her husband, 
8 My relation’s husband 
9 
My mother’s sister’s husband. 
arcat nt’ a isora 
uernia‘isora 
ilamale uidnik | 
ajamale uiänik 
uierqianik'iga 10 But I who would not at all rob any woman 
of her husband 
arca rqainik: ta 11 I who have not at all committed any adultery — 
tulitara‘na 12 That he without scruple laid himself with me! 
erce erce e’rce 13 Woe, woe, woe! 
VARIANTS. — 6. ars'a‘rnia'isora. — 7. uerninia'isora, oe r-. — 10. o€ rqean- 
ik-a. — 12. tulitarsin’arawga. 
NOTES. — 3. coqut it cf. WGr. sog:utit (Fabricius, Greenl. Ordbog s6ko- 
dlek). Both my informant and Sufia took it thus. Alternative explanation is 
‘the murderers’, foqutsitit (Kuannia). — 6-7. -sora either instead of -sora't 
‘they — him (her) or them’, or -sora‘t ‘he or she—them’? Sufia understood it 
as referring to the singer herself. — 10-11. -ryia(y) in 10 = -rqai in 11, cf. 
WGr. -rgajar-. — 12. < tutip:a: (luaip-a‘) ‘he lies with her’ (WGr. t > EGr. 4 
= |). But Kuannia understood it as culitara ma ‘he scolded me or trounced 
me.’ — 13. е-гсе, a rare exclamation, perhaps connected with the verb erce- 
qiwoq ‘suffers pain in the mind.’ Fabricius (Ordbog p. 81) and Egede (p. 33) 
give er(k)se ‘timidity, anxiety’ and Sufia understood it as an expression of 
fear. Kuannia did not know the word. | 
