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Greenlander
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English
Etymology
en :af Greenland -er<id:inhabitant> + 1
Pronunciation
en
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Greenlander.wav Southern England
Noun
A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54.
Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders (who, it is true, do not use wood, but train, for burning) would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.
en Matthew H. Birkhold A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/trump-greenland-denmark.html 2019-08-22 In a recent poll conducted by the Universities of Greenland and Copenhagen, more than two-thirds of Greenlanders expressed a desire for their country to become independent, most of them within 20 years. https://web.archive.org/web/20200716234635/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/trump-greenland-denmark.html
Related terms
en Greenland
en Greenlandic
Translations
a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
Asturian: ast groenlandés m, ast groenlandesa f
Bulgarian: bg гренландец m
Catalan: ca groenlandès m, ca grenlandès m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 格陵蘭人 Gélínglánrén
Czech: cs Gróňan m, cs Gróňanka f
Danish: da grønlænder c
Dutch: nl Groenlander m, nl Groenlandse f
Esperanto: eo groenlandano m, eo groenlandanino f
Faroese: fo grønlendingur m, fo grønlendari m
Finnish: fi grönlantilainen
French: fr Groenlandais m, fr Groenlandaise f
Galician: gl grenlandés m, gl grenlandesa f
German: de Grönländer m, de Grönländerin f
Greek: el Γροιλανδός m, el Γροιλανδή f, el Γροιλανδέζα f
Greenlandic: kl kalaaleq
Hungarian: hu grönlandi
Icelandic: is Grænlendingur m, is Grænlendingar m-p
Inuktitut: iu ᐊᑯᕿᑦᑐᕐᒥᐅᑦ akuqitturmiut
Inupiaq: ik Kalaaliq
Irish: ga Graonlannach m
Italian: it groenlandese c, it groenlandesi c-p
Japanese: ja グリーンランド人 グリーンランドじん, guriinrandojin
Korean: ko 그린란드인, ko 그린란드 사람
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb grønlender m
Nynorsk: nn grønlendar m
Polish: pl Grenlandczyk m, pl Grenlandka f
Portuguese: pt groenlandês Brazil, pt gronelandês Portugal
Romanian: ro groenlandez m, ro groenlandeză f
Russian: ru гренла́ндец m
Slovak: sk Grónčan m, sk Grónčanka f
Spanish: es groenlandés m, es groenlandesa f
Swedish: sv grönländare c, sv grönlänning c, female sv grönländska c
Turkish: tr Grönlandlı
Welsh: cy Glasynyswr m, cy Glasynyswraig f
en Demonyms Greenland Nationalities