306 W. THALBITZER. 
sawiteq ta‘iqipak'i 30 When I mentioned Sawiteq’s. name |? 
sawi t'a" ta iwara 31 I mentioned “the ferrule,” 
a je’ rnuanuartino 32 Although I cannot exactly manage it, 
nalinanuartino 33 And though I do not quite know it. 
nätsuwiän'uarpara 934 I have now given a little explanation of it. 
NOTES. — 2. Kuannia had known a man named Anneete. -ra‘jo'n in place 
of -rajuk ‘evil, bad’? Sufia would not admit that the word is a nomen pro- 
prium and translated as follows: “The bad rascal who looks so bitter and 
dark” (WGr. an-up:oq). — 3-4. The words must be divided thus ma'wale 
ilega:n and uän'e iwilega'n. — 5. qin'ekaje:- lit. ‘the bad (poor, ugly etc.) in- 
nermost end of the fjord’, probably a place-name. — 7-8. I see no way of 
explaining these words without breaking them up, the first thus: a‘wta: tegq- 
iwn-erseqg, the second: alile’ tegiwn'erseqg. ata’ is the interjection WGr. ata, 
and ай: is WGr. asule. teqiwn'erseq < WGr. tagip'oq ‘hesitates, lingers, keeps 
back’. The interpretation of these and the following lines remains rather 
uncertain. — 9. panegim'ior (Sufia). рапе- < раша: ‘wrestles or fights with 
him’, in the intransitive form pa'n'ip:og. — 11-12. Or “Should I go away? 
Should I flee?” These words are meant as in ist person sing., according to 
Sufia. — 13. Cf. WGr. az-iwog ‘grows’; -ne'- < -neru- ‘more and more. — 
14. < поигайт ‘two men in drum contest who stand opposite each other, 
snorting through their noses from anger’, cf. perhaps WGr. *пойга‘грод (semi- 
trans. *"iwin’ariwog?). — 15. < ariwa: It is not clear who is meant as the ob- 
ject of the verb, “the source, or subject of our contest.” One might think of 
a woman if the person in the next line was not said to be bearded. — 18. In- 
stead of o:malin- (Sufia). — 19. Cf. WGr. umerzuk ‘the nozzle of a seal or 
reindeer’; ‘a seal’s nozzle with beard bristles’ (Kuannia). Meanwhile I see 
the possibility of quite another explanation, as the word might mean ‘the 
great little person who sees or stares scrutinizingly (with drawn brows or 
half closed eyes’ (WGr. umerpog)). — 20. Or: “Let him (them) appear before 
our eyes!” — 21-23. i. e. “you two skinny beings!” -qaip'itsik = -qan‘itsik? and 
uwia perhaps = -uwie? (cf. WGr. uwinik ‘the flesh on a living animal or per- 
son’). So explained by Sufia. Kunnia, on the other hand, identified uwia- and 
uwier- (in 1. 21 and 23) with WGr. пила ‘her husband.’ — 24. -suk'o = -uk:o? 
($ in -НзиК`о may be an intervocalic glide < j), or -suk'o = заК`о? ‘these 
down there. The meaning is probably: So are they, and they must put up 
with it. Sufia prefers to retain the latter explanation which can probably be 
supplemented with that given by Kuannia in the note to 1. 31. — 25. ‘to be 
‘aptivated by (a man or a woman), to show affection for some one. Cf. pit-- 
arpa’ ‘catches fast hold of another’ (е. g. of a woman in order to caress ог 
ravish her). — 27. Thus interpreted by Sufia (cf. WGr. gogera’). — 30-31. It 
is probable that sawiteq (1. 30) is a proper name. But according to Kuannia 
the meaning of the name might be comprehended as vulva, and it seems 
conceivable to me that the word in 1. 31 shall be construed in this meaning 
(sawilwa: ‘her vulva’), so that there is here a kind of а pun. The words of 
the last lines, too, might suggest this. — 32. ajewrnua-, a peculiar pronun- 
ciation in place of ajewrnwa-. 
