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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

이누크

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Inukeu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Inuk/ˈiːnʊk/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"한 이누크가 북극의 전통을 가르쳐주었습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person of Inuit ethnicity, specifically an individual belonging to the Inuit people native to the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska.

    "The conference featured a keynote speech delivered by a prominent Inuk environmental activist."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to an individual Inuk or the cultural characteristics associated with them.

    "She wore a traditional Inuk parka handcrafted from sealskin and decorated with intricate beadwork."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Inuit language family (Inuktitut), specifically from the Proto-Eskimo-Aleut root meaning 'person' or 'human being'. It entered anthropological and geographical literature during Arctic explorations and ethnographic documentations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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