kangerluk

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *kaŋi-ʁ (“inner part, land side, source, innermost, inland”), from Proto-Eskimo *kaŋi- (“inner part of land, upstream”).

Pronunciation
  • (Nuuk) IPA(key): /kaŋirluk/, [kə.ŋɜɬ.ɬʊk]

Noun

kangerluk (plural kangerluit)

  1. fjord, inlet

Declension
Declension of kangerluk
singular plural
absolutive kangerluk kangerluit
ergative kangerluup kangerluit
allative kangerlummut kangerlunnut
ablative kangerlummit kangerlunnit
prosecutive kangerlukkut kangerlutsigut
locative kangerlummi kangerlunni
instrumental kangerlummik kangerlunnik
equative kangerluttut kangerluttut

See also
  • Kangerluk (“settlement in western Greenland”)
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