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.

    1002/1088 (page 990)
    j>s. In the evolution of the Greenland group of dialects the shift j > s appears to have been of special importance. In a great many words the dialects west of Davis strait havey, which has grown into voiceless s in Greenland.^ Mackenzie River Labrador Greenland in X>uije pulse seal {''■) angm.ajet ammassdt capelans iyih (pi. or iyipk J iije (or ijje) i'se (pi. i'si^ eye mmdya^ pi. 1 nuvuja, pi. 'nuia (pi. 7iu'iss(it) cloud nuvuyat J nuvnjet kpeyuk qejuk qi'snk wood mil'iyopk mikijoq mikisooq little c (cr) > .s.s. Mackenzie River Labrador Greenland tamadja or madjia tamadja (Rourquin tamassa here it is \r)iac:d\ yuaiment, § 192) hero it is massa here is; to certainement wit kpapiopk FLftcHE kargjok arrow qarsoq arrow \iqiuk = ogjiuk \ocnik\ iigjukse.dl ^issuk seal {Phuca rilOQUE harbata) itjek \ic:ek~\ froid itje frost isse frost, cold todjiapk \to:c:aq\ tootjaq beam toossaq beam of a POUTRE house (?) -tuapk (verbal ending) -djuaq big, great -ssuaq big, great (?) -yvMpk / > U > f'f’ North Alaska (Ray) Mackenzie River tgitaviat \gitamat\ four tguna \guna\ what nutjli [7iu^:a\ nutlet or nudjiat hair netyd oiatgepk or nadjepk seal {Phocavitulina) naityua naitopk (fin) short akityud apitopk soft > The original sound may still be traced in some words of the dialects of Ammassalik {kijcarma I alone; -kajik [suflix] bad) and of Smith sound (Tholbitzer 1,192, 215). § 6