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SOME ELEMENTARY WORDS FOR DESIGNATING THE
IMPLEMENTS OF CHASE. For the reasons here stated we
might expect that a similar difference as that just mentioned
would prevail among the names of these objects in the different
dialects, especially between those of the extreme east and west.
Rut a careful compilation and comparison of all the words that
are found in the vocabularies relating to the peculiar maritime
chase nevertheless has revealed a certain simplicity in designating
the contrivances that in each case are meant. It requires no
thorough knowledge of the language to discover, in running
over such a compilation, a limited number of radicals or
stem-words which make the chief constituant parts of it, the diversity
in the orthography of the European writers of course apart.
It may be concluded from this similarity, that in the earliest
time of the culture home such elementary words have been
invented or adopted for designating the notions to which the
new ways of supplying the first necessities of life gave rise,
and that this material has been maintained and made use of for
new inventions or modifications during the subsequent
development and dispersion of the inhabitants. In examining the
following list of the said elements some words certainly also here
will be found, that likely may have existed during an earlier
stage of culture, but as a tolerable completeness was required
in the series of words to be found in the vocabularies relating
to the whole mode of proceeding in the operations here in
question, they could for the sake of plainness not well be
omitted.
LIST OF ESKIMO WORDS RELATING TO SEAL- AND
WHALE-HUNT1NG: (Explanation: The eastern dialects: G. = Greenland,
L. = Labrador, C. = Central.— The western dialects: M. =
Mackenzie River, W. = Extreme American West, A. = Asiatic.)
1. G. unâq the shaft of the large harpoon, also a smaller
harpoon used on the ice; unârsivoq he lifts the (whole) harpoon
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