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| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| ▸ | Navagiaq | W | Navagiaĸ | |||
| "The One Who Travelled from Place to Place." The stem nava- is ancient and has to do with 'exchange', 'moving from place to place', whilst the ending -giaq suggests the meaning 'travel' or 'is out'. The legend of Navagiaq, which is the source of the name, is a so-called transmigrational myth where the main character dies, but travels from animal to animal as a spirit until it is finally caught and takes its abode inside a woman and become born among the human beings, and is named Navagiaq because of this process. The girls' name Navarana also contain the same meanings (see under the name). Variants or cognates of the name Navagiaq can be encountered in other Greenlandic legends in names such as Navak and Navalik. The name Navagiaq and the variant Navaluk are also names known and used among Iñupiat in Alaska. Also see: Thalbitzer, W. 1914: The Ammasalik Eskimo, I, Meddr Grønland 39(5): 272 - 274. Birgitte Sonne's database on myths and legends: http://tors.ku.dk/biblioteker/eskimologi/datasamlinger/sonnesbase/ | ||||||