aalaakkak

Greenlandic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /aalaakkak/, [aː.ləːk.kək]

Noun

aalaakkak (plural aalaakkaat)

1. firm, stable, unchanging
   • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     Inuit BBC-meersut marloriarlutik Ammassalimmiissimapuut.siullermik^[sic] martsimi, tassa taamani ukiup sikuani aalaakkammi filmiisoqarsimavoq.

     The people from BBC have been in Ammassalik twice. The first time in March, ? on winter's firm ice [on the water] ?

Declension

Declension of aalaakkak

	singular	plural
absolutive	aalaakkak	aalaakkaat
ergative	aalaakkaap	aalaakkaat
allative	aalaakkammut	aalaakkannut
ablative	aalaakkammit	aalaakkannit
prosecutive	aalaakkakkut	aalaakkatsigut
locative	aalaakkammi	aalaakkanni
instrumental	aalaakkammik	aalaakkannik
equative	aalaakkattut	aalaakkattut

References

• aalaakkak in Katersat