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Where does “nuna” come from?

nuna (Greenlandic) comes from Proto-Inuit *nuna, from Proto-Eskimo *nuna.

nuna (Greenlandic): Earth; country, land

Definitions

  1. Earth; country, land

Ancestry of “nuna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Inuit*nuna—
2Proto-Eskimo*nuna—

Words derived from “nuna”

  • nunatak
  • nunataq
  • nunatak
  • nunataq
  • nunavik
  • nunalerineq
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