Matching Names
Found 1 matching names:A
| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| ▸ | Asiajuk | N | Asiajuk | |||
| Spirit language. From the root asia: 'this world's Other world': Asiajuk/asiaasoq, 'the one apt to travel into the other world and back'. In the legend Kuanniliarfimmi from East Greenland, the phrase asikkut saqineq is spirit language for seeking out spirits. In colloquial speech the phrase means hunting in a kayak. In Canadian Inuktitut the entry asia is defines as: another than, elsewhere, alternative. Re. the post base -juk, see under: Inuujuk. | ||||||