Matching Names
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| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| ▸ | Pipaluk | N | Pipaluk | |||
| Hypocoristic name. from the stem ’pi-’ (pigisaq: ones possession/property) with the Thule ending '-paluk': ’ones own and dear little possession’. The ending '-paluk' is common in the Thule region, in names such as: Inukitsupaluk (little Inukitsoq), Kaalipaluk (little Karl), Ittupaluk (Little Ittu), Qujanapaluk (the gratifying little one) and Pallipaluk (Little Birch tree). The place name Siorapaluk (Little front/head or small beach). According to the publication from Statistics Greenland: ’Navnestatistik for Grønland 2004', Pipaluk was the most used Greenlandic girls name in the period 2000-2004. Number of name bearers: Pipaluk 136. (If you include the 81 women named Pipaluk in Denmark the number amounts to 217. This is probably due to the fact that the famous polar explorer and author Peter Freuchen named his daughter Pipaluk (1918 -1999)). | ||||||