Where does “kiassuseq” come from?

kiassuseq (Greenlandic) comes from Greenlandic kiappoq, from Greenlandic kiak, from Proto-Inuit *kiraɣ, from Proto-Eskimo *kiraɣ.

kiassuseq (Greenlandic): temperature, hotness

Definitions

  1. temperature, hotness

Ancestry of “kiassuseq”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Greenlandickiappoqis hot
2Greenlandickiakheat
3Proto-Inuit*kiraɣ—
4Proto-Eskimo*kiraɣ—
Every word from Proto-Eskimo *kiraɣ →Every word from Proto-Inuit *kiraɣ →Every word from Greenlandic kiak →