"nuna" meaning in Greenlandic

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Noun

IPA: /nuna/ (note: Nuuk), [nʉ.na] (note: Nuuk)
Etymology: From Proto-Inuit *nuna (“land, earth, inland”), from Proto-Eskimo *nuna (“land, earth, country”). Etymology templates: {{inh|kl|esx-inu-pro|*nuna|t=land, earth, inland}} Proto-Inuit *nuna (“land, earth, inland”), {{der|kl|esx-esk-pro|*nuna|t=land, earth, country}} Proto-Eskimo *nuna (“land, earth, country”) Head templates: {{head|kl|noun|plural|nunat|head=}} nuna (plural nunat), {{kl-noun|nunat}} nuna (plural nunat) Forms: nunat [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], nuna [absolutive, singular], nunat [absolutive, plural], nunap [ergative, singular], nunat [ergative, plural], nunamut [allative, singular], nunanut [allative, plural], nunamit [ablative, singular], nunaniit [ablative, plural], nunakkut [prolative, singular], nunatigut [plural, prolative], nunami [locative, singular], nunani [locative, plural], nunamik [instrumental, singular], nunanik [instrumental, plural], nunasut [equative]
  1. Earth Wikidata QID: Q2 Categories (topical): Geography
    Sense id: en-nuna-kl-noun-kl:Q2 Disambiguation of Geography: 74 26 Categories (other): Greenlandic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Greenlandic entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. country, land
    Sense id: en-nuna-kl-noun-eo~xhRN5 Categories (other): Greenlandic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Greenlandic entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Nunat Tamalaat Peqatigiit (english: United Nations)

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "United Nations",
      "word": "Nunat Tamalaat Peqatigiit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kl",
        "2": "esx-inu-pro",
        "3": "*nuna",
        "t": "land, earth, inland"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Inuit *nuna (“land, earth, inland”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kl",
        "2": "esx-esk-pro",
        "3": "*nuna",
        "t": "land, earth, country"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Eskimo *nuna (“land, earth, country”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Inuit *nuna (“land, earth, inland”), from Proto-Eskimo *nuna (“land, earth, country”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nunat",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nuna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "absolutive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunat",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "absolutive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunap",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ergative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunat",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ergative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunamut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunanut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunamit",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunaniit",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunakkut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "prolative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunatigut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "prolative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunani",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunamik",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunanik",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunasut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "equative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kl",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "plural",
        "4": "nunat",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "nuna (plural nunat)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nunat"
      },
      "expansion": "nuna (plural nunat)",
      "name": "kl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Greenlandic",
  "lang_code": "kl",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Greenlandic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "kl",
          "name": "Geography",
          "orig": "kl:Geography",
          "parents": [
            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Earth"
      ],
      "id": "en-nuna-kl-noun-kl:Q2",
      "links": [
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "kl:Q2"
      ],
      "wikidata": [
        "Q2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Greenlandic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "When Mr and Mrs Dursley woke up on the dull, grey Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country.",
          "ref": "2002, Stephen Hammeken, Harry Potter Ujarallu Inuunartoq, Nuuk: Atuakkiorfik, translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling, →ISBN, page 5:",
          "text": "Aappariit Dursleykkut sisamanngornermi avaanngunartumi uagut oqaluttuatta aallartiffiani, itermata, silami qulisimasumiit siulittuutigineqanngilaq, nunami tamarmi eqqumeeqisunik paasissaalluanngitsunik pisoqarumaartoq.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "country, land"
      ],
      "id": "en-nuna-kl-noun-eo~xhRN5",
      "links": [
        [
          "country",
          "country"
        ],
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nuna/",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[nʉ.na]",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuna"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Greenlandic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Greenlandic lemmas",
    "Greenlandic nouns",
    "Greenlandic terms derived from Proto-Eskimo",
    "Greenlandic terms derived from Proto-Inuit",
    "Greenlandic terms inherited from Proto-Inuit",
    "Greenlandic terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 12 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "kl:Geography"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "United Nations",
      "word": "Nunat Tamalaat Peqatigiit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kl",
        "2": "esx-inu-pro",
        "3": "*nuna",
        "t": "land, earth, inland"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Inuit *nuna (“land, earth, inland”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kl",
        "2": "esx-esk-pro",
        "3": "*nuna",
        "t": "land, earth, country"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Eskimo *nuna (“land, earth, country”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Inuit *nuna (“land, earth, inland”), from Proto-Eskimo *nuna (“land, earth, country”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nunat",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nuna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "absolutive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunat",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "absolutive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunap",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ergative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunat",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ergative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunamut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunanut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunamit",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunaniit",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunakkut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "prolative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunatigut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "prolative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunani",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunamik",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunanik",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nunasut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "equative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kl",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "plural",
        "4": "nunat",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "nuna (plural nunat)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nunat"
      },
      "expansion": "nuna (plural nunat)",
      "name": "kl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Greenlandic",
  "lang_code": "kl",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Earth"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "kl:Q2"
      ],
      "wikidata": [
        "Q2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Greenlandic terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "When Mr and Mrs Dursley woke up on the dull, grey Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country.",
          "ref": "2002, Stephen Hammeken, Harry Potter Ujarallu Inuunartoq, Nuuk: Atuakkiorfik, translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling, →ISBN, page 5:",
          "text": "Aappariit Dursleykkut sisamanngornermi avaanngunartumi uagut oqaluttuatta aallartiffiani, itermata, silami qulisimasumiit siulittuutigineqanngilaq, nunami tamarmi eqqumeeqisunik paasissaalluanngitsunik pisoqarumaartoq.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "country, land"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "country",
          "country"
        ],
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nuna/",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[nʉ.na]",
      "note": "Nuuk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuna"
}

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