Talk:Nunatukavut
Latest comment: 12 years ago by Stephen G. Brown in topic RFC discussion: June–August 2011
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This entry was tagged but not listed here. —CodeCat 18:02, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
- I've followed Wikipedia and turned this into an English proper noun. The Inuktitut seems to be NunatuKavut, but I'm not gonna start making Inuit entries. --Mglovesfun (talk) 11:04, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
- The original entry I wrote is perhaps clearer than what's there now, so we should restore it to that state and recover any pertinent info from subsequent edits. Mindmatrix 18:38, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- I think the biggest problem with it was the etymology. It made no sense to say that the word comes from itself. Nuna means land, -vut means our. I am uncertain about the middle part, tuka, because my experience is with Yup'ik, which is a little different. Tuka might be related to tukangcar-, meaning to raise or rear a child. If you don’t know the etymology, it would be better to leave that section out than to say it comes from itself. —Stephen (Talk) 19:27, 24 August 2011 (UTC)