akulleq

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Greenlandic[edit]

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akulleq (plural akulliit)

  1. the middle one, the one in the middle
    • 1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:
      Ernerput anguteqatiminoortartunngorsimavoq (19-inik ukioqarluni paasineqarpoq), niviarsiararlu nukarleq arnaqatiminoortartunngorsimalluni. Akulleq pissusissamisoortuuvoq.
      Our son has become gay (it was discovered when he was 19 years old), and the youngest girl has become a lesbian. The middle [child] is as she should be [i.e. heterosexual].

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