Reconstruction:Proto-Inuit/ǝɣlu
Proto-Inuit
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu.
Noun
edit*ǝɣlu
Descendants
edit- Inupiaq: iglu
- Inuktitut: ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, habitation”)
- Greenlandic: illu (“house”)
- → Danish: iglo (“igloo”)
- Tunumiisut: ittiq
References
edit- Fortescue, Michael, Jacobson, Steven, Kaplan, Lawrence (2010) Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates, 2nd edition, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center: University of Alaska Fairbanks, →ISBN, page 123