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.

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    Here I nia3’ mention an Alaska word, part of which is apparentl}' influenced by retrogressive iivnlarization: ir’shnlnhrdt (Barnum 337) MOUNTAIN SPIRITS is the Same word as Gr. issei'qat {<*irsimn<2Cit'^)^ singular isseraq, spelled by Egede (1750) ir.^eral‘. The same is true of the Al. 'Mkrloh (Barnum) throat, 'Mchluk (Schultze) uiP=:Gr. qqrLoq lip. tq, Lq, sq > rq. Alaska Mackenzie River Baffin Land (Petitot) (Boas) Labrador Greenland (Bourquin) metkpon AIGUILLE adra (Woldt- atkpa his name Jacobsen) atra (Barnum) atepa mv name his name ndtrok (Bar- natkpo fond num) DU BARK mittqon (N. Al., Woldt-Jacob- sen) viinqon (S. AL, Woldt-Jacob- sen) needle mitkpopk POIL ikkilthkok {ik: tLqoq] (Bar- 11 urn)- ekkitkaurak (Woldt-Jacob- sen) the little finger 'ikqua (Schultze) {it(^ik fin) the end arqa arqa his name miqxm {iietteq^ vat- varqa floor, teq) bottom met'qut vxet^qut needle ekkaikok (C.) kpikeptkpopk (M.) w/iqung merqoq mei'qoq hair of animals ixtqoq ei'qerqoq eqerqoq the little finger [Barnum] kpitkpa middle) milieu qiqa qei'qa epklo intestin iqawik %irk'klu (Bar- num) evil (Schultze) intestines (tqta [Barnum] {itchuk angle) iqe his den) tqoa et'qua erqua the back end of it qerqa the middle of it erchavik erhawik in- testines {eR.’awik^ evLoq rec- tum 67'qe eqe, eqeq cor- ner