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): /qipuqqarpuq/, [qy.pɔq.qɑp.pɔq]

Verb

qipoqqarpoq

1. (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.