ukioq

• ukioĸ (superseded)

From Proto-Inuit *ukiu- (“winter, autumn, year, spend the winter”), from Proto-Eskimo *ukju(r) (“winter, autumn, year”). Compare ukiaq (“autumn”), and ukiivoq (“spends the winter”). Cognate to Inuktitut ᐅᑭᐅᖅ (okioq), Inupiaq ukiuq.

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /ukiuq/, [u.kɪ.ɔq]

ukioq (plural ukiut)

1. winter
   • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     Inuit BBC-meersut marloriarlutik Ammassalimmiissimapuut.siullermik^[sic] martsimi, tassa taamani ukiup sikuani aalaakkammi filmiisoqarsimavoq.

     The BBC crew has visited Ammassalik twice. The first time was in March, when they filmed on the solid winter sea ice.

2. year, age
   • 1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:

     Nuliaralu siullermik ernertaarpugut, ukiut marluk qaangiummata panmissaarluta,^{[sic – meaning panissaarluta]} sulilu ukiut marluk qaangiuteqqimmata panissaaqqilluta.

     My wife and I first had a son, two years later a daughter, and another two years after that, another daughter.

• ukioqarpoq (“to be X years old”)

• ukioq in Katersat
• “ukioq“ in iserasuaat.gl