单词 | qallunaat |
释义 | Qallunaatn.adj. With reference to peoples in Canada and Greenland. A. n. With plural agreement. Non-Inuit people, considered collectively. Also occasionally as a count noun: = Qallunaaq n. ΚΠ 1975 Amer. Ethnologist 2 666 Parents warn a naughty child that qallunaat (Eurocanadians) will take him away if he does not behave. 1979 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 21 Sept. a16/2 The upbringing of her people enabled her to survive..the loneliness, the utterly foreign quality of the Qallunaats among whom she came to live. 2005 M. Cone Silent Snow 218 All of us—the Qallunaat, the people of the south—have a chance to do something now. B. adj. (attributive). = Qallunaaq adj. ΚΠ 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 May 8/1 A Twin Otter pilot alerted the hunters to a herd of walrus at the floe edge, precipitating a huge hunting party which brought back dog food, tusks, food and the highly-valued qallunaat (white man) souvenir—penis bones. 1994 Canad. Woman Stud. Fall 12/2 Qallunaat policymakers have yet to acknowledge that today's ‘new’ Qallunaat policies allowing adopted children access to their biological families have been followed by Inuit for centuries. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1975 |
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