taken from any particular locality but from the many willow bushes in their country, which in fact is more luxuriant than that of the other tribes. The word [pa·dlᴇq] means "willow", perhaps especially the Image missingFig. 6.Young Pâdlimio woman. Eskimo Point. dry branches which are suitable for fuel, as opposed to [ɔpik].[1] This word, however, also appears as a name of locality, for instance Pâdlitjuaq at Kazan River, south of Hikoligjuaq, so it may be that the Eskimos' own explanation is the result of a displacement of ideas. There is another word [pa·dli], which is part of the tribal name Pâdlimiut in Baffin Land and which comes from the word [pᴀ·q], "a fjord mouth", etc..[2] This however has nothing to do with the root of the name of Pâdlimiut under discussion. It is mentioned by Low and is also known to Boas and Stefánsson.[3] Petitol says about the Eskimos that "ceux de la baie d'Hudson qui fréquentent le poste de Churchill se nomment eux-mêmes Akut ou Agut, pluriel Agutit".[4] I myself have never found this name.
- ↑ According to Greenland rules of grammar the word should be [padlᴇrmiut] and Knud Rasmussen writes it this way everywhere in Fra Grønland til Stillehavet. It is of course not for me to compare my linguistic knowledge with that of Knud Rasmussen; but in this special case I must maintain that among the Eskimos themselves I have only heard the pronunciation [pa·dlimiut]; nor can any linguistic objection be made to it.
- ↑ Boas 1888 a; 424, 440 seqq.
- ↑ Low 1906; 135. Boas 1907; 6. Stefánsson 1914 a; 28, 290.
- ↑ Petitot 1876; x. Boas (1888; 450) identified "Agutit” with Qaernermiut. The root of the name is perhaps [ako], interval; but it is not wholly impossible that it is simply a corruption of [aɳutit], men.
