paasissaalluanngilaq
Greenlandic
Etymology
From paasissaavoq (“is intelligible”) + -lluar (“well”) + -nngit (“not”).
Verb
paasissaalluanngilaq
- (intransitive) is mysterious
- 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 tassaapput eqqumiitsunut paasissaalluanngitsunullu akuliunnissamut kingullerpaajullutik pasillerneqarsinnaasut. Inooriaatsip nalinginnaasup saniatigut iliuuseqarnissaq akuerisinnaanngilluinnarpaat.
- They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
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