kamik

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Inuktitut ᑲᒥᒃ (kamik).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kamik (plural kamiks)

  1. A mukluk.
    • 1987, Jill Elizabeth Oakes, Factors influencing kamik production in Arctic Bay, Northwest Territories:
      Regional differences affect kamik styles.
    • 1996, William T. Vollmann, The Atlas:
      The old man in old grayish kamiks still had very good vision […]

Anagrams

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Greenlandic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Inuit *kąmǝ̣ɣ, from Proto-Eskimo *kamǝɣ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kamik (plural kamiit or kanngit)

  1. boot

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Inuktitut

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Etymology

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From Proto-Inuit *kąmǝ̣ɣ, from Proto-Eskimo *kamǝɣ.

Noun

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kamik

  1. Latin spelling of ᑲᒥᒃ (kamik)