umiarsualivik

Greenlandic

Etymology

umiarsuaq (“ship”) +‎ -livik (“container, place for”)

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /umiarsualivik/, [u.mɪ.ɑs.sʊ.ʷə.lɪ.vɪk]

Noun

umiarsualivik (plural umiarsualiviit)

1. harbour
   • 1988, “AIDS-INFO”, in Atuagagdliutit:

     Naqitigaaqqat AIDS pillugu paasisitsiniutit Afrikami kujallermi umiarsualivinnut agguaanneqarsimapput umiartortut nappaassuarmut ulorianartumut taassumunnga mianersoqquniarlugit, ...

     Pamphlets informing about AIDS were distributed to harbours in South Africa, so as to warn sailors against this dangerous big disease [nappaassuaq "big disease" might be idiomatic], ...

   • 1982, August 4, Roland Thomsen, Atuagagdliutit, issue 31, "Tasiilami aasaq",

     Inuit uummalersutut ilipput, pingaartumik umiarsualiviup eqqaani

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of umiarsualivik

	singular	plural
absolutive	umiarsualivik	umiarsualiviit
ergative	umiarsualiviup	umiarsualiviit
allative	umiarsualivimmut	umiarsualivinnut
ablative	umiarsualivimmit	umiarsualivinnit
prosecutive	umiarsualivikkut	umiarsualivitsigut
locative	umiarsualivimmi	umiarsualivinni
instrumental	umiarsualivimmik	umiarsualivinnik
equative	umiarsualivittut	umiarsualivittut