Greenlandish

English

Etymology

From Greenland +‎ -ish, influenced by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Danish grønlandsk.

Adjective

Greenlandish (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, its people, or its language.
   • 1986, Lee M. Hollander, The Poetic Edda:

     Intimately connected with the question of the date is that of the home of Eddic poetry. There is fair agreement about only two poems: "Atlamál," which is generally allowed to be of Greenlandish origin, and the "Prophecy of Grípir," which no doubt was composed by an Icelander of the twelfth century [...]

Synonyms

• (preferred) Greenlandic

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, its people or language

• Catalan: groenlandès (ca), grenlandès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 格陵蘭的／格陵兰的 (zh), 格陵兰的 (zh) (Gélínglán de)

• Danish: grønlandsk
• Faroese: grønlendskur
• Finnish: grönlantilainen (fi)
• French: groenlandais (fr)
• German: grönländisch (de)
• Icelandic: grænlenskur
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: Graonlannach
• Italian: groenlandese (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grønlandsk

  Nynorsk: grønlandsk

• Polish: grenlandzki (pl)
• Portuguese: gronelandês (pt) (Portugal), groenlandês (pt) (Brazil)
• Russian: гренла́ндский (ru) (grenlándskij)
• Swedish: grönländsk (sv)

Noun

Greenlandish (uncountable)

1. The official language of Greenland, an Eskimo-Aleut language written with the Latin alphabet.
   • 1875, Hinrich Rink, Robert Brown, Tales and traditions of the Eskimo:

     Taking it for granted that Greenlandish may be held to represent the Eskimo tongue in general, we shall endeavour to give an idea of its remarkable construction.

   • 1996, Hans Goebl, Linguistique de contact:

     The linguistic character of Faroese and Greenlandish are very different, Greenlandish being an Eskimo language whereas Faroese is a Nordic language with roots in Old Norwegian.

Synonyms

• Greenlandic
• Kalaallisut

Translations

language

• Armenian: գրենլանդերեն (grenlanderen)
• Basque: groenlandiera (eu)
• Belarusian: грэнла́ндская f (hrenlándskaja), грэнля́ндзкая f (hrenljándzkaja) (taraškievica)
• Breton: kalaallisut
• Bulgarian: гренла́ндски ези́к m (grenlándski ezík)
• Catalan: groenlandès (ca) m, grenlandès (ca) m, kalaallisut m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 格陵蘭語／格陵兰语, 格陵兰语 (Gélínglán yǔ)

• Czech: grónština f
• Danish: grønlandsk
• Dutch: Groenlands (nl) n
• Esperanto: Gronlanda lingvo
• Faroese: grønlendskt n
• Finnish: grönlanti (fi), grönlannin kieli
• French: groenlandais (fr) m
• Georgian: გრენლანდიური ენა (grenlandiuri ena)
• German: Grönländisch (de) n, Kalaallisut n
• Greenlandic: kalaallisut, Kalaallisut (kl)
• Hawaiian: ʻōlelo ʻĀina ʻŌmaʻomaʻo
• Hungarian: grönlandi nyelv
• Icelandic: grænlenska (is) f
• Indonesian: bahasa Kalaallisut
• Irish: Graonlainnis f
• Italian: lingua groenlandese m, groenlandese (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: グリーンランド語 (ja) (Gurīnrando-go), カラーリット語 (Karāritto-go)
• Korean: 그린란드어 (ko) (Geurinrandeu-eo)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: lingua Groenlandica f
• Lithuanian: grenlandų kalba (lt)
• Macedonian: калалисутски m (kalalisutski), гренландски m (grenlandski)
• Navajo: Hakʼaz Dineʼé bizaad, Haʼaʼaahjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé bizaad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grønlandsk m

  Nynorsk: grønlandsk m

• Polish: grenlandzki (pl) m
• Portuguese: gronelandês (pt) m (Portugal), groenlandês (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: гренла́ндский язы́к (ru) m (grenlándskij jazýk), гренла́ндский (ru) m (grenlándskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: гренландски језик m
• Silesian: grynlandzkŏ gŏdka
• Slovak: grónčina (sk) f
• Slovene: grenlandščina f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: grönlandšćina f

• Spanish: groenlandés (es) m
• Swahili: Kigrinlandi
• Swedish: grönländska (sv)
• Turkish: Grönlandca (tr), Kalaallisut
• Ukrainian: ґренла́ндська f (grenlándsʹka)

See also

• Inuktitut

Further reading

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