Inuk
English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”).
Noun edit
- A member of one of the several indigenous peoples from the Arctic who descended from the Thule.
- 1975, The Musk-ox, numbers 15-20, page 37:
- He could be an Inuk, yes, so I could quite see there would be lots of Inuks, lots of Inuks who have no grounds for — no part of Eskimo ancestry, culture or heritage.
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Greenlandic edit
Etymology edit
From inuk (“human being, man”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Inuk
- a male given name
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References edit
- Navnestatistik for Grønland 1998
- Oqaatsit kallallisuumiit qallunaatuumut / Grønlandsk dansk ordbog, Ilinniusiorfik 2002. →ISBN
Inuktitut edit
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Inuk (plural Inuit)