Qaanaaq

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English

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Etymology

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From Greenlandic, related to qaaneq (space underneath the sleeping platform) and originally meaning “hollowed out by wind or ice erosion.”[1][2]

Proper noun

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Qaanaaq

  1. A town in northwestern Greenland near the Thule Air Base.

References

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  1. ^ Qaanaaq: Greenland's northernmost town”, in Visit Greenland
  2. ^ Michael Fortescue (1991) Inuktun: An Introduction to the Language of Qaanaaq, Thule[1]