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Found 1 matching names:K
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| ▸ | Kaugunnaq | N | Kaugúnaĸ | |||
| Mythological name. "The One Who Had Been Buried (or Caved) In Between Rocks." According to a legend, a man was hunting auks on a mountain and was buried between rocks in a landslide. Although he survived inside a cavity, he subsequently died of starvation. A powerful shaman came by and liberated the body and brought it to the shore, where he resuscitated him by conferring a new name by saying: "Kaugunnaq iterit!" (O Thou Who Hast Been Caved in by the Rocks, revive!") and the man began to breathe again, and came back to be among the living. (Told by Pualorsuaq. Holtved: The Polar Eskimos, MOG 152 (2), 1951, p. 294) According to Samuel Kleinschmidt's dictionary from 1871, the verbal stem 'kauvâ' (kaavaa) means: "puts something temporarily into an approximately sized cavity (hollow space); especially ... puts his hand in or under something, with just the similar size (under a stone for example to feel ones way, or in the pocket.) ... " Number of name bearers: Kaugunnaq 2. Kaugúnaĸ 6. | ||||||