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单词 qallunaaq
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Qallunaaqadj.n.

Brit. /kaˈluːnak/, U.S. /kæˈlunæk/, Canadian English /kæˈluːnæk/
Forms: 1900s– Kallunak, 1900s– Qallunaaq, 1900s– Qallunak, 1900s– Qalunak. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Eastern Canadian Inuit. Partly a borrowing from Greenlandic Inuit. Etymons: Eastern Canadian Inuit qallunaaq; Greenlandic Inuit qaɬɬunaaq.
Etymology: Partly < Eastern Canadian Inuit qallunaaq (plural qallunaat Qallunaat n.) non-Inuit, and partly < its cognate Greenlandic Inuit qaɬɬunaaq. Compare earlier kabloona n.
With reference to peoples in Canada and Greenland.
A. adj.
Of or designating non-Inuit people, spec. those of European descent; non-Inuit.
ΚΠ
1975 Amer. Ethnologist 2 671 Maybe my boy can have a job like I do, have a skidoo (snowmobile), maybe a nice house. But he doesn't have to be Qallunaaq.
1993 Anthropol. & Educ. Q. 24 217 The only time a child was asked to repeat the word nakurmik was when it was being addressed to the Qallunak researcher.
1997 B.-A. Daviss in R. E. Davis-Floyd & C. F. Sargent Childbirth & Authoritative Knowl. xvii. 464 When the Inuit settlements were established in the 1950s and 1960s, the Qallunaaq legal system assumed many of the responsibilities of traditional law.
B. n.
A non-Inuit person, spec. a person of European descent. Cf. kabloona n.
ΚΠ
1982 A. Foulke tr. J. Malaurie Last Kings Thule xx. 394 Tell this silly qallunaaq that the more of them I make all alike, the more expensive it will be, because it will be more boring to make them.
1995 Inuktitut (Nexis) Sept. I had the opportunity to travel.., always either with my in-laws or with other Inuit who could put up with the Qallunaaq who didn't know how to survive.
2004 Arctic (Nexis) 1 Mar. 94 The qallunaaq and his culture were worlds apart from the nomadic subsistence lifestyle of Avaalaaqiaq and other members of inland Inuit groups.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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