Reconstruction:Proto-Inuit/nukaq
Proto-Inuit edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Eskimo *nukaʀ.
Noun edit
*nukaq
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: nugaq
- Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: nukaq, nuka
- Inuvialuktun: nukaq
- Inuinnaqtun: nukaq
- Inuktitut: ᓄᑲᖅ (nokaq), nukaq
- Inuktun: nukaq
- Greenlandic: nukaq, nukag (“to be a spoiled child”)
- Tunumiisut: nukaq
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 260