Greenlander
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Etymology
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English Greenland
English Greenlander
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Noun
[edit]Greenlander (plural Greenlanders)
- A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54.
- Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders […] would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.
- 2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 16 July 2020:
- In a recent poll conducted by the Universities of Greenland and Copenhagen, more than two-thirds of Greenlanders expressed a desire for their country to become independent, most of them within 20 years.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54.
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[edit]a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -er (inhabitant)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lendʰ- (land)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰreh₁-
- English terms with audio pronunciation
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- English countable nouns
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- en:Demonyms
- en:Greenland
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