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ameq

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Greenlandic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Inuit *ami- (hide, skin, fish skin, tree bark), from Proto-Eskimo *ami- (hide, skin). Compare ameraq (bark).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ameq (plural amiit, and amit, and ammit)

  1. skin
    • 1998 September 1, “Aatsaat qaamasunik amilinnik takusut”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:
      Soorunami siornatigut aviisitigut allatigullu qaamasunik amillit qanoq isikkoqarnersut ilisimareeraluarlugit sunaaffa aatsaat iluamik inuttarsisut.
      While they had, of course, already seen people with light skin in news papers and the like, it turned out that they had not met any in the flesh.

Further reading

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Pacoh

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

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Noun

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ameq 

  1. cat