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Where does “Paarnaq” come from?

Paarnaq (Greenlandic) comes from Proto-Inuit *paunʁa-, from Proto-Eskimo *paɣunʁa-.

Ancestry of “Paarnaq”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Inuit*paunʁa-—
2Proto-Eskimo*paɣunʁa-—
Every word from Proto-Eskimo *paɣunʁa- →