Etymology

Saqqaq

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Today it means: The Paleo-Eskimo people who inhabited west-central Greenland circa 2500–800BC and who formed the Saqqaq culture. Full definition →

Greenlandic Saqqaq
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  1. Greenlandic · borrowed fromSaqqaq
  2. English todaySaqqaq

From the Greenlandic Saqqaq, a settlement in the Avannaata municipality of western Greenland, near which archaeological excavations discovered remains of the eponymous Saqqaq culture.

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