Where does “inussiaq” come from?
inussiaq (Greenlandic) comes from Greenlandic Inuk, from Greenlandic inuk, from Proto-Inuit inuɣ, from Proto-Eskimo-Aleut *iŋuɣ.
inussiaq (Greenlandic): slave
Ancestry of “inussiaq”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Greenlandic | Inuk | — |
| 2 | Greenlandic | inuk | person |
| 3 | Proto-Inuit | inuɣ | man, person |
| 4 | Proto-Eskimo-Aleut | *iŋuɣ | — |