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what does the word evil mean in inuit?

2007-02-26 10:36:26 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

i meant what is the word evil in inuit

2007-02-26 10:42:16 · update #1

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By the way, the language spoken by the Inuit people is called Inuktitut.

Several online dictionaries have the word "piktaungitok", meaning "he/she is evil":
http://www.dicts.info/dictionary.php?k1=1&k2=372

The Inuktitut Living Dictionary gives several possibilities for the word in different contexts: http://www.livingdictionary.com/search/viewResults.jsp?language=en&searchString=evil&languageSet=language_en

Click on the underlined terms (my computer can't display them--looks like a row of little squares) to see the equivalent in Roman script (the kind we can read :) )

2007-02-26 11:06:22 · answer #1 · answered by LibraryGirl 3 · 1 0

There are several possible translations:
see this site
www.alaskool.org/language/dictionaries/inupiaq/dictionaries
for example they had one listed as
Satan
(g)iit
after you get to the languages you will look for either iupiaq or Eskimo-alueit

2007-02-26 18:51:53 · answer #2 · answered by thankyou "iana" 6 · 0 0

idk. But the term Eskimo is derogatory because it means eater of flesh. That is why they prefer Inuit, which means people.

2007-02-26 18:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by Jen of Eve 3 · 0 0

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