greenlandic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.93 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.
name
The official language of Greenland, an Eskimo-Aleut language written with the Latin alphabet.
Example Sentences
- "In 2014, the Greenlandic government — called the Naalakkersuisut — established a reconciliation commission to investigate the continuing consequences of colonialism. After three years, the commission concluded that a majority of the nearly 60,000 people living in Greenland, 88 percent of whom are Greenlandic Inuit, are still marked by the negative effects of the colonial period."
- "Nevertheless, it may be too late—mistakes in Greenlandic already seem to have become embedded in machine translators. If you prompt either Google Translate or ChatGPT to do something as simple as count to 10 in proper Greenlandic, neither program can deliver."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *gróh₁nis Proto-Germanic *grōniz Proto-West Germanic *grōnī Old English grēne Middle English grene English green Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land ▲ Old Norse Grǿnlandcalq. English Greenland Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Greenlandic From Greenland + -ic.