qipoqqarpoq
Greenlandic
Etymology
From Proto-Inuit *qipuqqa (“sperm whale”), from Proto-Eskimo *qipuq(r)a (“sperm whale”). See Greenlandic qipoqqaq (“humpback whale”).
Pronunciation
- (Nuuk) IPA(key): [qi̹.pɔq.qɑp.pɔq]
Verb
qipoqqarpoq
- (intransitive) to capture a humpback whale
- N.B. This term seems to only appear in the 1927 dictionary, Den grønlandske ordbog, and may now be obsolete.