单词 | qallunaaq |
释义 | Qallunaaqadj.n. With reference to peoples in Canada and Greenland. A. adj. Of or designating non-Inuit people, spec. those of European descent; non-Inuit. ΚΠ 1975 Amer. Ethnologist 2 671 Maybe my boy can have a job like I do, have a skidoo (snowmobile), maybe a nice house. But he doesn't have to be Qallunaaq. 1993 Anthropol. & Educ. Q. 24 217 The only time a child was asked to repeat the word nakurmik was when it was being addressed to the Qallunak researcher. 1997 B.-A. Daviss in R. E. Davis-Floyd & C. F. Sargent Childbirth & Authoritative Knowl. xvii. 464 When the Inuit settlements were established in the 1950s and 1960s, the Qallunaaq legal system assumed many of the responsibilities of traditional law. B. n. A non-Inuit person, spec. a person of European descent. Cf. kabloona n. ΚΠ 1982 A. Foulke tr. J. Malaurie Last Kings Thule xx. 394 Tell this silly qallunaaq that the more of them I make all alike, the more expensive it will be, because it will be more boring to make them. 1995 Inuktitut (Nexis) Sept. I had the opportunity to travel.., always either with my in-laws or with other Inuit who could put up with the Qallunaaq who didn't know how to survive. 2004 Arctic (Nexis) 1 Mar. 94 The qallunaaq and his culture were worlds apart from the nomadic subsistence lifestyle of Avaalaaqiaq and other members of inland Inuit groups. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1975 |
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