Language and Folklore (Supplement). 499 
No. 238. To a little Girl named after her Mother’s Sister. 
Moolatte (at Sammisoq). 
This song is identical with no.1 from Ammassalik (see pag. 184) merely 
with lines 1, 10 and 11 omitted and with some slight variants made in lines 
8, 9, 14 etc. Moolatte had learned the song from visitors from the northern- 
most part of the East coast while he himself lived near »Ititteq« (WGr. 
Itiwhleq), a settlement on the Ilua basin at the furthest end of Prince Chris- 
tian Sound, halfway between the two coasts of Greenland. Owing to the 
different dialect of his informant, he hardly understood a word of the song, 
which, on his lips, had become only a kind of doggerel without meaning. 
As to the translation I refer to p. 184 (cf. fig. 26). 
1 (2) amidt-anila: 7 (8) uta:qidata 
2 (3) qumiät a mila: 8 (9) pita'qiàt a 
3 (4) ana'nan'ila' 9 (0) alana qalamani* a 
4 (5) argqaliwan ila: 10 (12) ajaniwa™ 
5 (6) alana 11 (13) qgajaniwat 
6 (7) galanania 12 (14) a+ p'alut-ukucson'o:"a 
VARIANTS AND NOTES. — 5. alana. — 7. ut‘qiäta. — 9. pita‘qiäla Moolatte 
held this word to mean the same as SGr. sarajdt-eq ‘capricious, uneven in 
temper, changeable. — 12. “The word does not mean ‘red’,” said Moolatte. 
Nos. 239—242. To our babies. 
Moolätte and his wife. 
The wife of Moolatte’s cousin sang these four petting songs for her 
children. 
No. 239. 
anajit:ep paniata arqa‘ta: Petting song to her eldest daughter. 
iwalertakasina 1 My own little newly-hatched young one 
пра lerta yiwa'ya 2 Nestle close to me on my back! 
No. 240. 
ernerata агда м: Petting song to her son. 
ne‘wa' perqa na 1 How his leg runs easily! 
NOTE. — 1. cf. WGr. per:an-arpogq. 
No. 241. 
Petting song to the son’s younger sister. 
hnerqana qu'narna 1 That she was taken out (of her 
mother), thanks be for that! 
nerqanayje? qujarnarnerajik 2 That she, the little one was taken out 
(of her), we say, thanks be for that! 
Notes. — 1-2. Cf. nio‘rqarpai ‘takes them (things) out of the boat, etc. 
(here, out of mother’s womb). 
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