ameq
Greenlandic
Etymology
From Proto-Inuit *ami- (“hide, skin, fish skin, tree bark”), from Proto-Eskimo *ami- (“hide, skin”). Compare ameraq (“bark”).
Pronunciation
- (Nuuk) IPA(key): [a.mɜq]
Noun
ameq (plural amiit, and amit, and ammit)
- skin
- 1998 September 1, "Aatsaat qaamasunik amilinnik takusut", Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten
- Soorunami siornatigut aviisitigut allatigullu qaamasunik amillit qanoq isikkoqarnersut ilisimareeraluarlugit sunaaffa aatsaat iluamik inuttarsisut.
- While they had, of course, already seen people with light skin in news papers and the like, it turned out that they had not met any in the flesh.
- Soorunami siornatigut aviisitigut allatigullu qaamasunik amillit qanoq isikkoqarnersut ilisimareeraluarlugit sunaaffa aatsaat iluamik inuttarsisut.
- 1998 September 1, "Aatsaat qaamasunik amilinnik takusut", Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten
Further reading
- DAKA
- ameq in Katersat
- ameq in Katersat
- ameq in Katersat