sunaaffa

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /sunaaffa/, [sʉ.nəːf.fa]

Particle

sunaaffa

1. Expression denoting surprise and/or lack of expectation, similar in some senses to lo and behold.
   • 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.

See also

• usiuffa

References

• "sunaaffa" in Dictionary of the West Greenland Eskimo Language, Schultz Lorentzen 1927.