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单词 qulliq
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qulliqn.

Brit. /ˈkʌlɪk/, U.S. /ˈkəˌlɪk/, Canadian English /ˈkʌˌlɪk/
Forms: 1900s– kullik, 1900s– qulliq. Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Eastern Canadian Inuit. Etymon: Eastern Canadian Inuit qulliq.
Etymology: < Eastern Canadian Inuit qulliq traditional oil lamp. Compare earlier kudlik n.
Canadian. Now chiefly historical.
= kudlik n.
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1974 E. Roch Arts of Eskimo 10/2 The elegant stone kullik and rectangular cooking pot, the ivory, bone or antler bowdrill..all these objects fell into disuse.
1982 ‘Georgia’ Arctic Voy. in C. Martin Local Colour (1994) 210 The women performed the qulliq lighting ritual, pounding fat for the round-sided well of the vessel, then, along the straight edge of the soapstone basin, fashioning a wick from arctic cotton.
1993 Inuktitut (Nexis) Nov. 34 Oil from the fat of sea mammals was always used in qulliqs (lamps).
2005 Fort McMurray (Alberta) Today (Nexis) 22 Feb. 4 Enoapik Sageatok, an elder from Iqaluit, lights the ceremonial qulliq at the Nunavut legislature in Iqaluit.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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