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Where does “arfeq” come from?

arfeq (Greenlandic) comes from Proto-Inuit aʁvǝʁ, from Proto-Eskimo aʁvǝʁ.

arfeq (Greenlandic): whale

Definitions

  1. whale

Ancestry of “arfeq”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Inuitaʁvǝʁwhale
2Proto-Eskimoaʁvǝʁ—
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