ukioq

Greenlandic

Alternative forms

• ukioĸ (superseded)

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *ukiu- (“winter, autumn, year, spend the winter”), from Proto-Eskimo *ukju(r) (“winter, autumn, year”). Compare ukiaq (“autumn”), and ukiivoq (“spends the winter”). Cognate to Inuktitut ᐅᑭᐅᖅ (okioq), Inupiaq ukiuq.

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /ukiuq/, [u.kɪ.ɔq]

Noun

ukioq (plural ukiut)

1. winter
   • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     Inuit BBC-meersut marloriarlutik Ammassalimmiissimapuut.siullermik^[sic] martsimi, tassa taamani ukiup sikuani aalaakkammi filmiisoqarsimavoq.

     The people from BBC have been in Ammassalik twice. The first time in March, where they filmed on winter's firm ice on the water [i.e., the ice that is not frozen year-round].

2. year
   • 1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:

     Nuliaralu siullermik ernertaarpugut, ukiut marluk qaangiummata panmissaarluta,^{[sic – meaning panissaarluta]} sulilu ukiut marluk qaangiuteqqimmata panissaaqqilluta.

     My wife and I first had a son, two years later a daughter, and another two years after that, another daughter.

Declension

Declension of ukioq

	singular	plural
absolutive	ukioq	ukiut
ergative	ukiup	ukiut
allative	ukiumut	ukiunut
ablative	ukiumit	ukiuniit
prosecutive	ukiukkut	ukiutigut
locative	ukiumi	ukiuni
instrumental	ukiumik	ukiumi
equative	ukiusut	ukiusut

Derived terms

• ukioqarpoq (“to be X years old”)