Etymology

kabloona

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Today it means: A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent. Full definition →

Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ ← Greenlandic kablunâk
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The story

  1. Greenlandic · borrowed fromkablunâk“white person, Dane”
  2. Eastern Canadian Inuktitut · borrowed fromᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ“foreigner”
  3. English todaykabloona

Borrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallunaaq, “foreigner”) or Greenlandic kablunâk (“white person, Dane”) (now spelled qallunaaq), or a combination of the two.

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