kalaaleq

Greenlandic

Alternative forms

  • Kalaleq (archaic)

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps a borrowing from and alteration of Old Norse skrælingi.[1] According to Online Etymology Dictionary, Hans Egede claimed that "the Eskimos themselves told him that they got the name from the Norsemen who once lived in Greenland."

Pronunciation

  • (Nuuk) IPA(key): /kalaaliq/, [kə.ləː.lɜq]

Proper noun

kalaaleq (plural kalaallit)

  1. Greenlander

References

  1. ^ Samuel Kleinschmidt, Den Grønlandske Ordbog, 1871, page 164
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