Qallunaat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑦ (qallonaat), "outstanding eyebrows"

Noun

Qallunaat pl (plural only)

  1. Europeans, people who are not Inuit, considered as a group.

References

  • Dear Qallunaat (white people)
  • Dorais, Louis-Jacques (2010), *The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic*, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, page 139.
  • Therrien, Michel (1987), *La parole inuit*, Montréal: Éditions Hurtubise.
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