ukioq

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Greenlandic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Inuit *ukiu- (winter, autumn, year, spend the winter), from Proto-Eskimo *ukju(r) (winter, autumn, year). Compare ukiaq (autumn), and ukiivoq (spends the winter). Cognate to Inuktitut ᐅᑭᐅᖅ (okioq), Inupiaq ukiuq.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ukioq (plural ukiut)

  1. winter
    • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:
      Inuit BBC-meersut marloriarlutik Ammassalimmiissimapuut.siullermik[sic] martsimi, tassa taamani ukiup sikuani aalaakkammi filmiisoqarsimavoq.
      The people from BBC have been in Ammassalik twice. The first time in March, where they filmed on winter's firm ice on the water [i.e., the ice that is not frozen year-round].
  2. year
    • 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.

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