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Greenlandic
Etymology
From Proto-Inuit *ukiu- (“winter, autumn, year, spend the winter”), from Proto-Eskimo *ukju(r) (“winter, autumn, year”). Compare ukiaq (“autumn”), and ukiivoq (“spends the winter”). Cognate to Inuktitut ᐅᑭᐅᖅ (okioq), Inupiaq ukiuq.
Pronunciation
Noun
ukioq (plural ukiut)
- winter
1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:Inuit BBC-meersut marloriarlutik Ammassalimmiissimapuut.siullermik martsimi, tassa taamani ukiup sikuani aalaakkammi filmiisoqarsimavoq.- The people from BBC have been in Ammassalik twice. The first time in March, where they filmed on winter's firm ice on the water .
- year
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.
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