Where does “Pilunnguaq” come from?

Pilunnguaq (Greenlandic) comes from Greenlandic pilu, from Proto-Inuit *pIlu-, from Proto-Eskimo *pǝɫu-.

Ancestry of “Pilunnguaq”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Greenlandicpiluleaf
2Proto-Inuit*pIlu-—
3Proto-Eskimo*pǝɫu-—
Every word from Proto-Eskimo *pǝɫu- →Every word from Proto-Inuit *pIlu- →Every word from Greenlandic pilu →