English
Ilulissat
Ilulissat comes from Greenlandic iluliaq ‘iceberg’.
- Greenlandicmoderniluliaq‘iceberg’
- Greenlandic, derivedmodernIlulissatplural of iluliaq
- Englishearliest quotation 2001same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Greenlandicmoderniluliaq‘iceberg’
- Greenlandic, derivedmodernIlulissatplural of iluliaq
- Englishearliest quotation 2001same form
Earliest quotation: 2001, James Brooke, Where Icebergs Are Born: “Every summer, Ilulissat Kangerlua, a fjord two miles south…”
Every English word from Greenlandic iluliaq
Today it means
name A city in Avannaata, Greenland.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Greenlandic iluliaq / Ilulissat