Etymology

Nuuk

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Today it means: The capital city of Greenland. Full definition →

Danish Nuuk ← Greenlandic Nuuk
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The story

  1. Greenlandic · derived fromnuuk“a cape”
  2. Greenlandic · derived fromNuuk
  3. Danish · borrowed fromNuuk
  4. English todayNuuk

Borrowed from Danish Nuuk, from Greenlandic Nuuk, a capitalization of Greenlandic nuuk (“a cape”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.