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Greenlandic
Etymology
From Proto-Inuit *malʁu- (“two, pair”), from Proto-Eskimo *malǝʁu- (“two, pair”). It is likely that the -k ending is a remnant of the, now obsolete, dual ending -k.
Pronunciation
Numeral
marluk
- two
1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:BBC-p qaammatini marlunni filmiliornini TV-mi takutittagassaq tuluit ilisimasassarsiortuannut Sir Ernerst Schackleton-imut tunngasoq naammassigaat- BBC has finished two months of filming for a TV series about English explorer Sir Ernerst Schackleton
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.