Matching Names
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| ▸ | Tinnaaq | N | Tínâĸ | |||
| 'The Good Drum Dancer'. From the word 'tivavoq': dances dodging his body using a drum (to make the audience laugh). Hence the words: “tissigaa (old orthography: tivsigâ - finds him comical)”, “tissinarpoq (tivsinarpoĸ - is amusing)”, “tissisaarpaa (tivsisârpâ - tries to make him laugh)”. Tinnaaq has to do with motion/dance. In Labrador Inuttut the word: "tinnakpuq" means "he is freezing, he shivers with the cold." Iñupiat in Alaska uses the word "sayuun" for "a song for motion dance; actions for motion dance", a word which also was known among the Inegpait in the Upernavik region. Sajuppoq has gained the meaning "shaking" in contemporary Greenlandic. The name probably originated as a byname for a person who was "a good drum-dancer." Number of name bearers: Tivnâĸ 3, Tivnâq 12. (All as last names.) | ||||||