Qaanaaq
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English
Etymology
From Greenlandic, related to qaaneq (“space underneath the sleeping platform”) and originally meaning “hollowed out by wind or ice erosion.”[1][2]
Proper noun
Qaanaaq
- A town in northwestern Greenland near the Thule Air Base.
References
- ^ “Qaanaaq: Greenland's northernmost town”, in Visit Greenland
- ^ Michael Fortescue (1991) Inuktun: An Introduction to the Language of Qaanaaq, Thule