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

See also

  • Kangerluk (“settlement in western Greenland”)
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