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Greenlandic
Etymology
From Proto-Inuit *ịʁnị-ʁ, from Proto-Eskimo *iʁni-ʁ. Cognate of Inuktitut ᐃᕐᓂᖅ (irniq) and Inupiaq iġñiq.
Pronunciation
Noun
erneq (plural ernerit)
- son
1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:Nuliaralu siullermik ernertaarpugut, ukiut marluk qaangiummata panmissaarluta, 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.
2002, Stephen Hammeken, Harry Potter Ujarallu Inuunartoq, Nuuk: Atuakkiorfik, translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling, →ISBN, page 4:Aappariit erneeraqarput Dudleymik atilimmik. Aappariit isumaqarput ernertik silarsuarmi asseqanngitsoq.- The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.
Declension
References
Yup'ik
Etymology
From erte- (“to dawn”) + -neq (postbase meaning a thing that results from -ing).
Noun
erneq
- day (24-hour period or day as opposed to night)