qipoqqarpoq

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Greenlandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Inuit *qipuqqa (“sperm whale”), from Proto-Eskimo *qipuq(r)a (“sperm whale”). See Greenlandic qipoqqaq (“humpback whale”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Nuuk) IPA(key): /qipuqqarpuq/, [qy.pɔq.qəp.pɔq]

Verb[edit]

qipoqqarpoq

  1. (intransitive) to capture a humpback whale
    N.B. This term seems to only appear in the 1927 dictionary, Den grønlandske ordbog, and may now be obsolete.
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