Greenlander

English

Etymology

From Greenland +‎ -er.

Noun

Greenlander (plural Greenlanders)

1. A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.
   • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54.

     Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders […] would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.

Related terms

• Greenland
• Greenlandic

Translations

a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent

• Asturian: groenlandés (ast) m, groenlandesa (ast) f
• Bulgarian: гренландец m (grenlandec)
• Catalan: groenlandès (ca) m, grenlandès (ca) m
• Czech: Gróňan m, Gróňanka f
• Danish: grønlænder c
• Dutch: Groenlander (nl) m, Groenlandse (nl) f
• Esperanto: groenlandano m, groenlandanino f
• Faroese: grønlendingur m, grønlendari m
• Finnish: grönlantilainen (fi)
• French: Groenlandais (fr) m, Groenlandaise (fr) f
• Galician: grenlandés (gl) m, grenlandesa f
• German: Grönländer (de) m, Grönländerin (de) f
• Greek: Γροιλανδός (el) m (Groilandós), Γροιλανδή f (Groilandí), Γροιλανδέζα f (Groilandéza)
• Greenlandic: kalaaleq
• Hungarian: grönlandi (hu)
• Icelandic: Grænlendingur (is) m, Grænlendingar m pl
• Inuktitut: ᐊᑯᕿᑦᑐᕐᒥᐅᑦ (akoqittormiot)
• Inupiaq: Kalaaliq
• Irish: Graonlannach m
• Italian: groenlandese (it) c, groenlandesi c pl
• Japanese: グリーンランド人 (グリーンランドじん, guriinrandojin)
• Korean: 그린란드 사람 (geurillandeu saram)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grønlender m

  Nynorsk: grønlendar m

• Polish: Grenlandczyk (pl) m, Grenlandka (pl) f
• Portuguese: groenlandês (pt) (Brazil), gronelandês (pt) (Portugal)
• Romanian: groenlandez m, groenlandeză f
• Russian: гренла́ндец (ru) m (grenlándec)
• Slovak: Grónčan m, Grónčanka f
• Spanish: groenlandés (es) m, groenlandesa (es) f
• Swedish: grönländare (sv) c, grönlänning (sv) c, (female) grönländska (sv) c
• Turkish: Grönlandlı (tr)
• Welsh: Glasynyswr m, Glasynyswraig f