different between kabloona vs qallunaaq

English

Alternative forms

• kabluna, kadloona

Etymology

From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut qallunaaq (“foreigner”) or Greenlandic kablunâk (“white person, Dane”) (now spelled qallunaaq), or a combination of the two.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??blu?n?/

Noun

kabloona (plural kabloonas or kabloona or kabloonat)

1. (Canada, US) A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
   • 2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror: A Novel:

     After food and pleasantries had been exchanged, the old man asked what they were doing so far from the God-Walking People's northern lands, and when one of the hunters explained that they were looking for living or dead kabloona […]

Translations

English

Noun

qallunaaq (plural qallunaaqs)

1. Alternative form of Qallunaaq

Greenlandic

Noun

qallunaaq

1. Dane
   • 1992 21/8, "Usuni kipigaa", Atuagagdliutit, p. 11

     Qanittukkut aviisini eqqartorneqarpoq qallunaap usuni kipisimagaa nuliama itigartitsiuarnera naalliuutigingaaramiuk.

     Recently, there was a story in the papers about a Dane who cut off his penis because he was very pained by his wife's persistent rejections.

2. white person, person with pale skin

Derived terms

• qallunaatut, Qallunaat Nunaat

Descendants

• ? English: Qallunaaq

Further reading

• DAKA

Inuktitut

Noun

qallunaaq

1. Latin spelling of ????? (qallunaaq)