Volume 1

Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas ; with illustrative sketches by Roland B. Dixon ... [and others].

  • Franz Boas
Date:
1911-
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Credit: Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas ; with illustrative sketches by Roland B. Dixon ... [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    1001/1088 (page 989)
    TOP OF A mountain), n {oNN(t armpit). The other voiced consonants of the language (w, I, j, g, r) are always short, and are found only between weak (unstressed) syllables or in the transition from a weak to a strongly stressed syllable. If the weak syllable has the stress owing to derivation or inflection of the word, the fricative consonant becomes unvoiced and long; e. g., r > It It. West Greenland ma'raLLuJc Greenland 'maRmq clay morass, swamp West Greenland neri'woq eats Greenland 'neuRiwik eating- place (table, etc.) West Greenland taaq dark-] ness, shadow Greenland 'taRRaq shadow, re- Mackenzie river tapapM flection OMBRE Southwest Alaska a'riftaka\ I quarrel with him j </>AX. Southwest Greenland ni'gaq a snare Southwest Greenland i'ga a pot Southwest Greenland ni'geq south wind Mackenzie river nixyepk east wind Greenland 'aRR-iwoq hastens 'aRRappoq flies into a passion West Greenland 'nixxdt snares (plural) West Greenland 'ixxawik the pot-place (kitchen, etc.) West Greenland 'nixxet'poq it is south wind 1>LL. West Greenland a'loq a sole West Greenland aLLut soles (plural) M est Gieenland ilinne at. West Greenlandthou by thee W>FF. West Greenland i'wik (a blade of) grass West Greenland awa north M est Greenland alioiqypaa divides it in two pieces Mackenzie river avitoak ’ DIVORCER West Greenland 'iffU grass (plural) West Greenland 'aFFa there in the north West Greenland 'aFFaq the half part §6