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Where does “qajaq” come from?
qajaq (Greenlandic) comes from Proto-Eskimo qyaq — kayak.
qajaq
(Greenlandic): kayak
Definitions
kayak
Ancestry of “qajaq”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Eskimo
qyaq
kayak
Words derived from “qajaq”
kajak
kajakk
kajakk
kajakk
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