Etymology

qallunaaq

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Today it means: Not Inuit; of European descent. Full definition →

Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ ← Greenlandic qallunaaq
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  1. Greenlandic · derived fromqallunaaq
  2. Inuktitut · derived fromᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ
  3. English todayQallunaaq

From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallonaaq) and Greenlandic qallunaaq. Compare kabloona.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.