Greenlandish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Greenland + -ish, possibly after Danish grønlandsk.
Adjective
[edit]Greenlandish (not comparable)
- Dated form of Greenlandic (“pertaining to Greenland”).
- 1986, Lee M. Hollander, The Poetic Edda:
- Intimately connected with the question of the date is that of the home of Eddic poetry. There is fair agreement about only two poems: "Atlamál," which is generally allowed to be of Greenlandish origin, and the "Prophecy of Grípir," which no doubt was composed by an Icelander of the twelfth century […]
Proper noun
[edit]Greenlandish
- Dated form of Greenlandic (“language of Greenland”).
- Synonyms: Greenlandic, Kalaallisut
- 1875, Hinrich Rink, Robert Brown, Tales and traditions of the Eskimo:
- Taking it for granted that Greenlandish may be held to represent the Eskimo tongue in general, we shall endeavour to give an idea of its remarkable construction.
- 1996, Hans Goebl, Linguistique de contact:
- The linguistic character of Faroese and Greenlandish are very different, Greenlandish being an Eskimo language whereas Faroese is a Nordic language with roots in Old Norwegian.