kamik

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᑲᒥᒃ (kamik).

Pronunciation

  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkɑmɪk/, /ˈkæmɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɑmɪk

Noun

kamik (plural kamiks)

  1. A mukluk.
    • 1987, Jill Elizabeth Oakes, Factors influencing kamik production in Arctic Bay, Northwest Territories:
      Regional differences affect kamik styles.
    • 1996, William T. Vollmann, The Atlas:
      The old man in old grayish kamiks still had very good vision […]

Anagrams

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *kąmǝ̣ɣ, from Proto-Eskimo *kamǝɣ.

Pronunciation

  • (Nuuk) IPA(key): /kamik/, [kə.mɪk]

Noun

kamik (plural kamiit or kanngit)

  1. boot

Declension

Declension of kamik
case singular plural
absolutive kamik kamiit
ergative kamiup
allative kamimmut kaminnut
ablative kamimmit kaminnit
prolative kamikkut kamitsigut
locative kamimmi kaminni
instrumental kamimmik kaminnik
equative kamittut

References

Inuktitut

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *kąmǝ̣ɣ, from Proto-Eskimo *kamǝɣ.

Noun

kamik

  1. Latin spelling of ᑲᒥᒃ (kamik)
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