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- Inuktitut · borrowed fromᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ
- English todayArviat
From Inuktitut ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ (arfiat) / Arviat, from ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ / arviat (“place of the bowhead whale”), from ᐊᕐᕕᒃ / arvik (“bowhead whale”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arviat
Today it means: A hamlet in Kivalliq, Nunavut, Canada, on the west coast of Hudson Bay; the third largest community in Nunavut, the largest community near the geographic centre of Canada. Full definition →
Inuktitut ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ