Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

qallunaat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: qal-lu-naat
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Europeans, people who are not Inuit, considered as a group.

Etymology

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑦ (qallonaat), "outstanding eyebrows"

Word Breakdown

Root: ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑦ

Questions

What does qallunaat mean?: Europeans, people who are not Inuit, considered as a group.
Where does qallunaat come from?: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑦ (qallonaat), "outstanding eyebrows"

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