Where does “Pilutannguaq” come from?

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

Ancestry of “Pilutannguaq”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GreenlandicPilutaqleaf (plant feature)
2Greenlandicpiluleaf
3Proto-Inuit*pIlu-
4Proto-Eskimo*pǝɫu-
Every word from Proto-Eskimo *pǝɫu-Every word from Proto-Inuit *pIlu-Every word from Greenlandic pilu