Greenlandicadj.n.

1792 G. Thorkelin Let. 24 Nov. in J. Sinclair Corr. (1831) II. xix. 214 The vessels going from hence..have, in a great measure, been prevented from reaching their destination on account of the Greenlandic ice.

1873 Proc. Royal Soc. London 15 June 188 A curious and interesting question as to whether the Greenlandic fauna is European or American.

1881 Periodical Accts. Missions Church United Brethren 32 146 We must take into account the outward circumstances of our Greenlandic people,..and judge accordingly of the weakness of their faith.

1904 tr. S. Hansen in Meddelelser om Grønland‎ (Kommissionen for videnskabelige undersøgelser i Grønland, Denmark) 42 A pure and unmixed Eskimo tribe..which physically surpasses most of the other East Eskimo and especially the other Greenlandic tribes.

1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples iv. 94 Thule peoples occupied all of the areas occupied by historic Canadian Inuit (and more), and all modern Canadian and Greenlandic Inuit are descended from them.

2003 Daily Tel. 24 Dec. 14/7 Russia can say that Lomonosov Ridge was part of the Russian shelf, which is true. But other parts of the ridge were part of the Norwegian shelf and the Greenlandic shelf.

1793 J. Leslie in tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VII. 456 (note) The Greenlandic Dictionary.

1813 E. Henderson in Life (1859) iii. 116 Another merchant has promised to get the Greenlandic Testaments forwarded.

1887 Science 10 287 Written in the modern Greenlandic alphabet.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. ix. 328 The Greenlandic sentence consists of a noun and its attributes, whereas the English one is formed by a subject and its predicate.

1990 Indians & Inuit Canada (Dept. Indian & Northern Affairs) 26 Poul Egede..published a Greenlandic translation of the New Testament in 1766.

1820 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland (rev. ed.) II. vi. 223 It is covered with a white cloth, on which are inscribed in Greenlandic, words to the following effect.

1883 A. C. Thompson Morav. Missions vi. 250 The translation of the Scriptures into Greenlandic.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. iii. 139 Greenlandic, for instance, a highly synthetic language, builds up words of the greatest complexity.

1986 K. Katzner Langs. of World (rev. ed.) iii. 342 Eskimo, known here as Greenlandic, is the official language and is spoken by the great majority of the population.

2008 Wilson Q. Autumn 39/2 The current prime minister..speaks only Greenlandic.