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Where does “Nuuk” come from?

Nuuk (English) comes from Danish Nuuk, from Greenlandic Nuuk, from Greenlandic nuuk — cape.

Ancestry of “Nuuk”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1DanishNuuk—
2GreenlandicNuuk—
3Greenlandicnuukcape
Every word from Greenlandic nuuk →