346 М’. THALBITZER. 
8. Let us go forth to drum-contest. 
9. On the only sledge we have; both of us on one sledge. 
Nore. — 1. Cf. WGr. akun'ip:og ‘stay the night as guest on the road. — 
4, keni- might be derived from several words, and the meaning here is not 
certain. I connect it with WGr. kinornuwog (also kinuniuwogq) ‘is behind, or 
left behind someone, after the other visitors have gone.’ — 6-8. The suffix 
-niarna via = шагпа ‘thou— me’ + -ata interj. (see р. 150, § 73). — 9. The 
suffix -шау (or -lo(), -l’9) = Шрау? < WGr. -шад (-suaq) ‘only, sole.’ 
No. 189. They Reject Each Other. 
Akernilik. 
Despite some obscurity it is evident that the song treats of a man’s 
distaste for a woman whom age has deprived of her beauty, and perhaps 
vice versa. 
Refrain 
pa’nrayja aeja jaja 
Burden 
iwinara'rtik ta: ne: tarpon 
joes 
He who has an opponent in drum contest 
is wont to make a disagreeable poem: 
pequjpuv a: niwartartiwa 2 “I who, alas, long ago ceased to be 
handsome, 
na kipin a niwartartiwa 3 I who, alas, long ago lost my fine face — 
tarma"to:n nakerniartiwa 4 All the same I tried to look nice 
isin a gama 5 When I was rejected.” | 
isernortiqan: twana: tin 6 Folk think that you have something of- 
fensive about you, 
malin-ortiqan:twana:tin 7 Folk think that you have some ugly 
manners 
nulukue-rata:tulik:i 8 When you stick out your little backside. 
quakaye ti tiYc-uakajeqa:q 9 Your nostrils are extremely ridiculous. 
ta'ma:‘'to:n nakerniartiizin 10 All the same you tried to look nice 
isin a gawit 11 When you were rejected. 
NOTES. — 1. A similar line is found in no. 181. iwiyara'rlik is dual, 
-га`г in place of -даг? — 3. Here we presumably have a word from the same 
stem as nakerniar(tiwa) in line 4 (cf. 10) and corresponding with (WGr.) 
nakera: ‘likes him or it best. Both Kuannia and Sufia connected, or con- 
founded, these words with WGr. nakuwog ‘is squint-eyed.. Nakuniarpog would 
mean: ‘tries to squint, or to look keenly at something which one has close 
to one’s eyes, so that one almost squints.’ Sufia ascribed two meanings to 
naki-: 1) ‘is squint-eyed’; 2) ‘is foolish, stupid.’ According to Kuannia, naker- 
niartog is said of a woman who has ‘a nice or sweet face’, lit. perhaps ‘one 
who tries to look nice’, cf. nakinuartikajik (p. 192, no. 7) ‘a squint-eyed bad 
chap’ said jokingly of a baby instead of ‘dear, charming. nakega”na should 
about mean (of a woman) ‘I am beautiful, have a fine (fastidious?) face’ 
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(Kuannia). — 5. (Cf. 11) isin’a- < iserna-, cf. WGr. isornarpoq < isora: ‘one 
