Where does “nunatak” come from?

nunatak (English) comes from Greenlandic nunataq, from Greenlandic nuna, from Proto-Inuit *nuna, from Proto-Eskimo *nuna.

nunatak (English): A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that...

Definitions

  1. A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that...

Ancestry of “nunatak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Greenlandicnunataqnunatak, an exposed, often rocky element of a...
2GreenlandicnunaEarth; country, land
3Proto-Inuit*nuna—
4Proto-Eskimo*nuna—

Words derived from “nunatak”

Every word from Proto-Eskimo *nuna →Every word from Proto-Inuit *nuna →Every word from Greenlandic nuna →