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Where does “kabloona” come from?

kabloona (English) comes from Greenlandic kablunâk — white person, Dane.

kabloona (English): A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland,...

Definitions

  1. A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland,...

Ancestry of “kabloona”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Greenlandickablunâkwhite person, Dane
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