Where does “inuit” come from?
inuit (Danish) comes from Greenlandic inuit, from Greenlandic inuk, from Proto-Inuit inuɣ, from Proto-Eskimo-Aleut *iŋuɣ.
inuit (Danish): Inuit
Ancestry of “inuit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Greenlandic | inuit | plural of inuk; people |
| 2 | Greenlandic | inuk | person |
| 3 | Proto-Inuit | inuɣ | man, person |
| 4 | Proto-Eskimo-Aleut | *iŋuɣ | — |
Words derived from “inuit”