Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

saqqaq

/sɑːkək/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: saqqaq
IPA: /sɑːkək/

33

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The Paleo-Eskimo people who inhabited west-central Greenland circa 2500–800BC and who formed the Saqqaq culture.

Example Sentences

"2010, February 10ᵗʰ: Brian Handwerk, “Face of Ancient Human Drawn From Hair’s DNA: Genome paints picture of man from extinct Greenland culture”, for National Geographic News The Saqqaq have long presented a puzzle to scientists, according to study co-author Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark."

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Root: Saqqaq

Questions

How do you pronounce saqqaq?: The recorded pronunciation is /sɑːkək/.
What does saqqaq mean?: The Paleo-Eskimo people who inhabited west-central Greenland circa 2500–800BC and who formed the Saqqaq culture.
Where does saqqaq come from?: 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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