eqalussuannguvoq
Greenlandic
editEtymology
editFrom eqalussuaq (“shark”) + -nngu (“feels bad”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editeqalussuannguvoq
- to be ill from eating shark meat (especially of a sled dog)
- 2015, T. J. Jørgensen, Tamanut[1], page 23:
- Aalisartut eqalussuarmik taassuminnga paasiuminaatsumik eqiasuttumillu oqaatigineqartarneratut ukiunik 100-nik arlalinnik ukioqalersinnaasumik oqaluttuuppaannga. Tamatuma saniatigut eqalussuaq aalisartunut ajoqutaasorujussuusoq oqaluttuuppaannga, tassami aalisartut qassutaataat aserortertarpaat aammalu eqalussuup nerpia immikkut toqunartortaqarami qimminillu eqalussuanngutitsisarami inunnit nerineqarsinnaanngitsoq uumasunillu aamma iluamik nerineqarneq ajortoq oqaluttuarlutik.
- The fishermen told me about this mysterious dull and lazy shark, which is said to be hundreds of years old. In addition, they said that the shark was a pest for the fishermen because it destroyed their fishing nets and was inedible to humans and almost inedible for animals, because it contained a special poison that made the dogs shark-full.
References
edit- oqaasileriffik
- DAKA
- Lorentzen, S. Den grønlandske ordbog, at oqaasileriffik.gl