ukioqarpoq
Greenlandic
editEtymology
editukioq (“year”) + -qar (“have”)
Pronunciation
editVerb
editukioqarpoq
- (intransitive) be a specified number of years old
- 1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:
- Ernerput anguteqatiminoortartunngorsimavoq (19-inik ukioqarluni paasineqarpoq), niviarsiararlu nukarleq arnaqatiminoortartunngorsimalluni.
- Our son has become gay (it was discovered when he was 19 years old), and the youngest girl has become a lesbian.