ᐳᐱᒃ

Inuktitut

Etymology

From the root pu- for "protuberance on a surface" and the morpheme -pik for "alone by itself" [1]

Noun

ᐳᐱᒃ (popik) (plural ᐳᐱᐃᑦ, Latin pupik)

  1. mushroom

References

  1. ^ Louis-Jacques Dorais (2014) The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 137
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