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Where does “Nunavut” come from?

Nunavut comes from Inuktitut nunavut, meaning "our land," from nuna meaning "land" and the possessive suffix -vut meaning "our."

Ancestry of “Nunavut”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1InuktitutNunavut—
2Inuktitutnunavutour land

Words derived from “Nunavut”

  • Nunavut
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