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— alivoq — alugpâ — angmâq — angmavoq — anguarpoq —
anguvâ — aorpoq — apúmaq — ârdluk — asaloq — assagpâ —
ausiaq — ava I — igípa — igdlaoq — igdloq — igssuk — ikê
— ikeq — imuk — inivâ — ipe — iperaq — isoq — iteq —
itsaq — ituípoq — itumaq — ivisâq — ivssuvoq — ivavoq —
— qalugiaq — qârpâ — qâteq — qingoq — qitornaq — quagssuk
— qungiaq — katak — kingeq — kinguk — maqigpoq — mamik
— mano — masak — masik — mingoq — mitilik — mugtuk —
naqigpoq — napo — nigsik — nîorpoq — nutâq — pagpâ —
pâgpâ — pamioq — pangneq — pero — pingo — pitsiulik —
pukeq — sáko — samik — serdlaq — suk — suluitoq — taquaq
— tamaq — tâterâq — tauto — tigdlaq — tigpik — torssoq —
tuapaq — tujorpâ — tunivâ — tuputa — uerneq — ugpik —
uiarpâ — uípoq.
Arrangement of the Sections. Comparing the Special Part of
the Vocabulary with Powell’s schedules, some re-arrangement will
be found to have taken place. Being too poorly represented in the
dialects, some sections are embodied in others. For the same reason
„Measure“ and „Standard of value“ are wholly omitted, and from
other points of view there was no room for „Geographical names“
and „New words“.
As to the special groups, among others it was of particular
interest to learn, what systems and words relating to „Division of
the year“ and „Quarters of the globe“, were applied by the
East-Greenlanders, who have lived almost quite isolated from European
influence and about whose state of culture we have recently
obtained the most authentic and detailed information. The year they
divide according to the changes of the moon, and the months are
designated by their number, counting from the first change after
the first apearance of the star asît (Atair = a aquilae) in the
morning twilight. Formerly they began numbering from the first
change after the shortest day, and this still being maintained in
some places, it sometimes gives rise to misunderstanding. The
natives are very skilled in calculating in advance the arrival of the
shortest day by observing the position of the sun and the said star.
There was a dispute between one of them and the foreigners, in
which the native proved to be right. As for the rest, it is well
known that the Eskimo tribes, moreover divide the year into seasons,
named after the different occupations and especially the different
kinds of game to be had, and consequently varying according to the
localities.
To indicate the quarters of the globe the Westgreenlanders
use at once two systems. Besides the ordinary one they derive
another from the view of the open sea, distinguishing what is to
the left, qava, and to the right, ava. On the westcoast these terms
came to signify at the same time, respectively south and north, and
qavángarnisaq a man from the south, avángarnisaq from the north.
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