English
kabloona
Kabloona may come from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ ‘foreigner’.
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitutmodernᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅqallunaaq‘foreigner’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2007kabloona
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitutmodernᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅqallunaaq‘foreigner’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2007kabloona
Earliest quotation: 2007, Dan Simmons: “After food and pleasantries had been exchanged, the old…”
Every English word from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ
Today it means
noun A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ / kabloona