K'upanuk

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Female Female Name

Usage

Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Greenlandic name meaning 'snow bunting' (bird, Latin: Plectrophenax nivalis). The word may derive from quppaq = 'crevice', since the buntings often build nests therein (see also K'ulutaĸ) [1] [2]

Snow Bunting
Snow Bunting
Image by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,[3]
License: Public Domain

Related Names

K'upanuk
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Greenlandic
Qupaneq
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Greenlandic
Qupanuk
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Greenlandic

See also K'upaluna

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Statistics

No recent statistics trend found in databases for K'upanuk.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (2015)
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Greenland Language Secretariat Oqaasileriffik http://www.oqaasileriffik.gl/kl
  3. Wikimedia Commons: Image by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, source & license