单词 | greenlandic |
释义 | Greenlandic in British English (ɡriːnˈlændɪk) adjective 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Greenland, the Greenlanders, or the Inuit dialect spoken in Greenland noun 2. the dialect of Inuktitut spoken in Greenland Greenlandic in American English (ɡrinˈlændɪk) noun 1. a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland adjective 2. of or pertaining to Greenland, its inhabitants, or their language Word origin [greenland + -ic]-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic) |
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