"marluk" meaning in All languages combined

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Numeral [Greenlandic]

IPA: /marluk/ (note: Nuuk), [mɑɬ.ɬʊk] (note: Nuuk)
Etymology: From Proto-Inuit *malʁu- (“two, pair”), from Proto-Eskimo *malǝʁu- (“two, pair”). It is likely that the -k ending is a remnant of the, now obsolete, dual ending -k. Etymology templates: {{inh|kl|esx-inu-pro|*malʁu-||two, pair}} Proto-Inuit *malʁu- (“two, pair”), {{der|kl|esx-esk-pro|*malǝʁu-||two, pair}} Proto-Eskimo *malǝʁu- (“two, pair”) Head templates: {{head|kl|numeral}} marluk
  1. two
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      "*malʁu-",
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    ],
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    ]
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Eskimo *malǝʁu- (“two, pair”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Inuit *malʁu- (“two, pair”), from Proto-Eskimo *malǝʁu- (“two, pair”). It is likely that the -k ending is a remnant of the, now obsolete, dual ending -k.",
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      },
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  "lang": "Greenlandic",
  "lang_code": "kl",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "Greenlandic cardinal numbers",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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        }
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              21
            ]
          ],
          "english": "BBC has completed two months of filming for a TV series about British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton",
          "ref": "1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:",
          "text": "BBC-p qaammatini marlunni filmiliornini TV-mi takutittagassaq tuluit ilisimasassarsiortuannut Sir Ernerst^([sic]) Schackleton^([sic])-imut tunngasoq naammassigaat",
          "translation": "BBC has completed two months of filming for a TV series about British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton",
          "type": "quotation"
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            ],
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              74
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          "english": "My wife and I first had a son, two years later a daughter, and another two years after that, another daughter.",
          "ref": "1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:",
          "text": "Nuliaralu siullermik ernertaarpugut, ukiut marluk qaangiummata panmissaarluta,^([sic – meaning panissaarluta]) sulilu ukiut marluk qaangiuteqqimmata panissaaqqilluta.",
          "translation": "My wife and I first had a son, two years later a daughter, and another two years after that, another daughter.",
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        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/marluk/",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɑɬ.ɬʊk]",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "marluk"
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    ],
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      "*malǝʁu-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/malǝʁu-"
    ]
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        "4": "",
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "3": "*malǝʁu-",
        "4": "",
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Eskimo *malǝʁu- (“two, pair”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Inuit *malʁu- (“two, pair”), from Proto-Eskimo *malǝʁu- (“two, pair”). It is likely that the -k ending is a remnant of the, now obsolete, dual ending -k.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "kl",
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      },
      "expansion": "marluk",
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  "lang": "Greenlandic",
  "lang_code": "kl",
  "pos": "num",
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        "Greenlandic terms derived from Proto-Inuit",
        "Greenlandic terms inherited from Proto-Inuit",
        "Greenlandic terms with IPA pronunciation",
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          "english": "BBC has completed two months of filming for a TV series about British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton",
          "ref": "1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:",
          "text": "BBC-p qaammatini marlunni filmiliornini TV-mi takutittagassaq tuluit ilisimasassarsiortuannut Sir Ernerst^([sic]) Schackleton^([sic])-imut tunngasoq naammassigaat",
          "translation": "BBC has completed two months of filming for a TV series about British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton",
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              49
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              34
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              74
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          "ref": "1992, “Meeqqakka”, in Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten:",
          "text": "Nuliaralu siullermik ernertaarpugut, ukiut marluk qaangiummata panmissaarluta,^([sic – meaning panissaarluta]) sulilu ukiut marluk qaangiuteqqimmata panissaaqqilluta.",
          "translation": "My wife and I first had a son, two years later a daughter, and another two years after that, another daughter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "two"
      ],
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/marluk/",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɑɬ.ɬʊk]",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "marluk"
}

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