Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
agloo aglu | a breathing hole made in ice by a seal. |
alliak | an Inuit sledge. |
amaut amowt amauti amautik | a hood on a woman's parka for carrying a child. |
angakok angekok angekkok | an Inuit sorcerer. [Inupiaq (Greenlandic) angakkoq.] |
anorak | a skin or cloth hooded jacket worn by Eskimos and so by others in polar regions; a similar weatherproof garment worn elsewhere. [Inupiaq (Greenlandic) annoraaq.] |
atigi artigi | a kind of PARKA worn in Canada. |
ayaya | a type of singing among the Inuit. |
chimo | a word used as a greeting. |
comatik komatik | a sled with wooden runners. [Inuit qamatik]. |
igloo iglu | a snow house. [Inupiaq iglu, house]. |
inukshuk inuksuk | a stone used to mark a location > INUKSHUKS or INUKSHUIT; INUKSUKS or INUKSUIT. |
kabloona | a person who is not an Inuit >KABLOONAS or KABLOONAT. |
kaiak kayak kyak qajaq | a type of canoe; kaiak and kayak, but not kyak, can be used as verbs: to travel by kaiak or kayak. |
kakivak | a type of Inuit fishing-spear. |
kamik | a knee-length sealskin boot. |
kamotik kamotiq qamutik | a sled with wooden runners. |
kudlik qulliq | a soapstone seal-oil lamp. |
malamute malemiut malemute | an Alaskan sled dog. [Inuit malimiut]. |
mucluc mukluk muckluck | a type of sealskin boot. |
muktuk | whale skin used for food. [Inupiaq maktak.] |
nanook | a polar bear. |
nunatak | a point of rock appearing above the surface of land ice > NUNATAKS or NUNATAKER. [Inupiaq (Greenlandic) nunataq.] |
oomiac oomiak oomiack umiac umiak umiaq umiack | a type of canoe. |
pingo | a cone-shaped mound with an ice core > PINGOS or PINGOES. [Inupiaq pinguq nunatak.] |
qiviut | the fine, soft, light-brown under layer of hair on the musk ox; yarn spun from this hair. [Inupiaq, pl. of qiviuq.] |
quinzie quinzhee | a shelter made by hollowing out a pile of snow. |
tiktaalik | any of a genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned) fish from the late Devonian period. |
topek tupek tupik | an Inuit animal-skin tent. [Inupiaq tupiq.] |
tuktoo tuktu | a caribou. |
ulu | an Eskimo knife. [Inupiaq]. |