marluk

Greenlandic

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Cardinal: marluk     Ordinal: aappaa

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *malʁu- (“two, pair”), from Proto-Eskimo *malǝʁu- (“two, pair”). It is likely that the -k ending is a remnant of the, now obsolete, dual ending -k.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑɬ.ɬuk/

Numeral

marluk

1. two
   • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     BBC-p qaammatini marlunni filmiliornini TV-mi takutittagassaq tuluit ilisimasassarsiortuannut Sir Ernerst Schackleton-imut tunngasoq naammassigaat

     BBC has finished two months of filming for a TV series about English explorer Sir Ernerst Schackleton

   • 1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:

     Nuliaralu siullermik ernertaarpugut, ukiut marluk qaangiummata panmissaarluta,^{[sic – meaning panissaarluta]} sulilu ukiut marluk qaangiuteqqimmata panissaaqqilluta.

     My wife and I first had a son, two years later a daughter, and another two years after that, another daughter.