Nature & Outdoors

1. ᖃᖅᑲᖅ

   Qaq-kaq

   Mountain

   Usage

   Names a mountain. The plural is qaqqait

   Grammar Note

   A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

2. ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ

   A-u-ju-it-tuq

   Glacier

   Usage

   Names a glacier. Siku is ordinary "ice"

   Grammar Note

   A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

3. ᓯᑯ

   Si-ku

   Ice

   Usage

   Ice on the sea or a river; it also covers sea ice

   Grammar Note

   A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

4. ᑰᒃ

   Kuuk

   River

   Usage

   Names a river. A small creek is kuugalaak

   Grammar Note

   A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

5. ᑕᓯᖅ

   Ta-siq

   Lake

   Usage

   Names a lake. A small pond is tasiarjuk

   Grammar Note

   A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

6. ᕿᑭᖅᑕᖅ

   Qi-kiq-taq

   Island

   Usage

   Names an island. The place name Qikiqtarjuaq, "a big island", begins the same way

   Grammar Note

   A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

7. ᖁᕐᓗᕐᓂᖅ

   Qur-lur-niq

   Waterfall

   Usage

   Names a waterfall

   Grammar Note

   A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

8. ᓇᖅᓴᖅ

   Naq-saq

   Valley

   Usage

   Names a valley

   Grammar Note

   A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

9. ᓄᓇᕋᖅ

   Nu-na-raq

   Flower

   Usage

   Names a flower. The plural is nunarait

   Grammar Note

   A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

10. ᓯᕿᓂᖅ

    Si-qi-niq

    Sun

    Usage

    Names the sun. Sunrise is siqiniq nuijuq and sunset is siqiniq nipijuq

    Grammar Note

    A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

11. ᐅᓪᓗᕆᐊᖅ

    Ul-lu-ri-aq

    Star

    Usage

    Names a star, said when looking at the night sky

    Grammar Note

    A plain noun. Inside a sentence its ending changes with case and number

12. ᖃᖅᑲᖅ ᐊᖏᔪᖅ.

    Qaq-kaq a-ngi-juq.

    The mountain is big.

    Usage

    Comments on the size of a mountain you are looking at

    Grammar Note

    A noun followed by a verb-type form gives "X is ...". Angijuq is the third-person form of "is big". Composed from known words and sentence patterns; native review recommended

13. ᐱᕕᐊᕐᓇᖅᑐᖅ.

    Pi-vi-ar-naq-tuq.

    It's beautiful.

    Usage

    Said in praise of a view or a landscape

    Grammar Note

    A third-person form, so it means "it is beautiful" without a subject word

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