English
Etymology
From Greenland + -er.
Noun
Greenlander (plural Greenlanders)
- A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54.
- Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders […] would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.
Translations
a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
- Asturian: groenlandés (ast) m, groenlandesa (ast) f
- Bulgarian: гренландец m (grenlandec)
- Catalan: groenlandès (ca) m, grenlandès (ca) m
- Czech: Gróňan m, Gróňanka f
- Danish: grønlænder c
- Dutch: Groenlander (nl) m, Groenlandse (nl) f
- Esperanto: groenlandano m, groenlandanino f
- Faroese: grønlendingur m, grønlendari m
- Finnish: grönlantilainen (fi)
- French: Groenlandais (fr) m, Groenlandaise (fr) f
- Galician: grenlandés (gl) m, grenlandesa f
- German: Grönländer (de) m, Grönländerin (de) f
- Greek: Γροιλανδός (el) m (Groilandós), Γροιλανδή f (Groilandí), Γροιλανδέζα f (Groilandéza)
- Greenlandic: kalaaleq
- Hungarian: grönlandi (hu)
- Icelandic: Grænlendingur (is) m, Grænlendingar m pl
- Inuktitut: ᐊᑯᕿᑦᑐᕐᒥᐅᑦ (akoqittormiot)
- Inupiaq: Kalaaliq
- Irish: Graonlannach m
- Italian: groenlandese (it) c, groenlandesi c pl
- Japanese: グリーンランド人 (グリーンランドじん, guriinrandojin)
- Korean: 그린란드 사람 (geurillandeu saram)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grønlender m
- Nynorsk: grønlendar m
- Polish: Grenlandczyk (pl) m, Grenlandka (pl) f
- Portuguese: groenlandês (pt) (Brazil), gronelandês (pt) (Portugal)
- Romanian: groenlandez m, groenlandeză f
- Russian: гренла́ндец (ru) m (grenlándec)
- Slovak: Grónčan m, Grónčanka f
- Spanish: groenlandés (es) m, groenlandesa (es) f
- Swedish: grönländare (sv) c, grönlänning (sv) c, (female) grönländska (sv) c
- Turkish: Grönlandlı (tr)
- Welsh: Glasynyswr m, Glasynyswraig f
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