Qaanaaq
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
- A town in northwestern Greenland near the Thule Air Base.
References
[edit]- ^ “Qaanaaq: Greenland's northernmost town”, in Visit Greenland
- ^ Michael Fortescue (1991) Inuktun: An Introduction to the Language of Qaanaaq, Thule[1]