Where does “nunatak” come from?

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

nunatak (Polish): nunatak

Definitions

  1. nunatak

Ancestry of “nunatak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Greenlandicnunataqnunatak, an exposed, often rocky element of a...
2GreenlandicnunaEarth; country, land
3Proto-Inuit*nuna—
4Proto-Eskimo*nuna—
Every word from Proto-Eskimo *nuna →Every word from Proto-Inuit *nuna →Every word from Greenlandic nuna →