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nent and make him impatient. The suffix -аЁар`оа (cf. 1. 8 and 12, 9 and 13) is 
probably the same as -dt-arpoa in 1.1 (rp > pp, see р. 127, $ 33). — 3. e‘”nu 
(cf. 1. 14 e?n:u) < i®pe'ner(up) ‘of the singing’ (instead of i”p’e'”nerup); ima 
instead of ima: (cf. 1. 14) ‘its contents’ (Kuannia). — 1-5. pisa‘ri in composi- 
tion instead of pisa’ra? cf. piseq ‘drum-contest song’, -a° < -агад ‘small, little’, 
-ra ‘my’. — 7. kasin'iara < WGr. katup'a ‘beats the drum’ (Kuannia), or 
kasup:a’ ‘hammers, beats on it’ (Sufia). — 10. -so- < -sora‘, -mi- < -miwoq? 
But possibly the suffixes are < -sorpog ‘makes use of’ and -miwoq ‘a little 
more’, so that the whole should mean ‘as you (or I) made use of the song 
yet a little longer, as I drew it out yet a little longer.” — 15. sut-une, WGr. 
su®z'une. — 16. The translation rendered by Kuannia. Akernilik’s indistinct 
pronunciation of this word made it (as so often) impossible for me to dis- 
criminate the sounds $ and J; if the sound intended was $, the word probably 
has something to do with isertorpog ‘hides himself” or iserpoq ‘goes in’. The 
termination -pap'a-is peculiar to this dialect, but not very common. Cfr. La- 
brador Esk. -pakpoq (Bourquin, Grammatik р. 260). — 17. Answers to WGr. 
issora’ ‘finds something offensive in him. — 18. -po-y dual. = -punuk. — 
19. I wonder if the stem of the word is qa'q ‘the skin underlay on the рае 
form where one lies’? (thus: ‘we have mutual underlay of skin on the plat- 
form’?). Kuannia merely explained that it was = tkinutine:ponun ‘we are 
friends’ and pegatine'popum ‘We belong together. — 21. -{ema, the same as 
-tv:na. tama'terlo'na (also ivnatewna) is a very strong expression of disap- 
proval of or scorn for a man. Cf. WGr. ta’lo-na .(Kleinschmidts Dictionary 
р. 361), ‘see what a miserable fellow! Oh you worthless person! — 22. ila'iser- 
< Па‘ шоп ‘keeps company with. -пиаг = -niar(?). -riarma is possibly = 
-riarama ‘when I was about to. The informant explained it in this form 
isere'wa ‘I too went 11.’ — 23. ilawna (according to Kuannia) = Па`®пе ‘at 
times.’ — 24. -sät, the meaning is doubtful, possibly connected with WGr. 
suffix -sap'oq ‘in a somewhat greater degree’, which seems to be used more 
extensively at Ammassalik (cf. -sa‘lerpoq in sikoqasa:lerpoq ‘there comes more 
and more ice’). -io probably = -ujo ‘also’. — 26. -{uaq ‘great, big.’ -qiga’ (in- 
stead of -qiga) < (WGr.) -rqik, comparative ending. Cf. Fabricius, Grammar 
р. 57 nuta‘qiga ‘newer than I, or newer than mine. — 27. Cf. WGr. tap-up:a: 
< tapeq. ; 
No. 191. A False Charge Retorted. 
AkWkaag А. Ukuttiaq В. 
Prompted by a summer journey. Ammaait (or Ammaag) is a small is- 
land in the mouth of Sermilik Fjord. — The entire lines 10—15 are due to 
Ukuttiag, who also added some variants of the lines given by AkWkaaq. 
MARIE 
шара am'a:mun 1 Down there from the south (arriving) at 
Ammaait, 
qawunan iva’ та 2 When I made a little journey to the north, 
сипа'ра оча`ша‘тпа‘`а 3 What was it they continually told of me? 
anile:rtse-rtit-ïwa 4 That I was out to procure my booty by 
secret arts 
Ч $ . 509 . - Q , [3 
atamän isama apit”a- 5 From my brother-in-law’s|?| catches then? 
nit’e ma 
