José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente (born 1982) is Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Translation Studies and Hungarian Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His main interests lie in historical linguistics, language contact and typology. He holds a PhD degree in Linguistics (2012) from the University of the Basque Country (Spain).

• List of figures 7Abbreviations (frequently used in the book) 9Introduction 11Johannes Balle 15J. Balle’s wordlist from the perspective of Greenlandic philology 19The wordlist 25Formal considerations 25J. Balle’s translations and English keywords 27Cultural and linguistic remarks 29Forms from Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) 30Acknowledgments 33References 35I Keywords and Etymology 47II Tunumiisut(–Danish–Keyword) 119III Kalaallisut(–Danish–Keyword) 155IV Proto-Inuit-Yupik and Proto-Inuit reconstructions 193V English keywords 211VI Words of unclear origin, loanwords, and cultural terms [by keywords] 219

José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente (born 1982) is Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Translation Studies and Hungarian Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His main interests lie in historical linguistics, language contact and typology. He holds a PhD degree in Linguistics (2012) from the University of the Basque Country (Spain).

• List of figures 7Abbreviations (frequently used in the book) 9Introduction 11Johannes Balle 15J. Balle’s wordlist from the perspective of Greenlandic philology 19The wordlist 25Formal considerations 25J. Balle’s translations and English keywords 27Cultural and linguistic remarks 29Forms from Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) 30Acknowledgments 33References 35I Keywords and Etymology 47II Tunumiisut(–Danish–Keyword) 119III Kalaallisut(–Danish–Keyword) 155IV Proto-Inuit-Yupik and Proto-Inuit reconstructions 193V English keywords 211VI Words of unclear origin, loanwords, and cultural terms [by keywords] 219

José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente (born 1982) is Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Translation Studies and Hungarian Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His main interests lie in historical linguistics, language contact and typology. He holds a PhD degree in Linguistics (2012) from the University of the Basque Country (Spain).

• List of figures 7Abbreviations (frequently used in the book) 9Introduction 11Johannes Balle 15J. Balle’s wordlist from the perspective of Greenlandic philology 19The wordlist 25Formal considerations 25J. Balle’s translations and English keywords 27Cultural and linguistic remarks 29Forms from Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) 30Acknowledgments 33References 35I Keywords and Etymology 47II Tunumiisut(–Danish–Keyword) 119III Kalaallisut(–Danish–Keyword) 155IV Proto-Inuit-Yupik and Proto-Inuit reconstructions 193V English keywords 211VI Words of unclear origin, loanwords, and cultural terms [by keywords] 219