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Where does “kiak” come from?
kiak (Greenlandic) comes from Proto-Inuit *kiraɣ, from Proto-Eskimo *kiraɣ.
kiak
(Greenlandic): heat
Definitions
heat
Ancestry of “kiak”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Inuit
*kiraɣ
—
2
Proto-Eskimo
*kiraɣ
—
Words derived from “kiak”
kiappoq
kiassuseq
Every word from Proto-Eskimo *kiraɣ →
Every word from Proto-Inuit *kiraɣ →