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Greenlander

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54. Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders [...] would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English Greenland Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English Greenlander From Greenland + -er.

Across languages

Translations

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Asturian: groenlandés — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Asturian: groenlandesa — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Bulgarian: гренландец (grenlandec) — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Catalan: groenlandès — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Catalan: grenlandès — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Czech: Gróňan — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Czech: Gróňanka — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Danish: grønlænder — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Dutch: Groenlander — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Dutch: Groenlandse — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Esperanto: groenlandano — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Esperanto: groenlandanino — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Faroese: grønlendingur — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Faroese: grønlendari — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Finnish: grönlantilainen — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • French: Groenlandais — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • French: Groenlandaise — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Galician: grenlandés — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Galician: grenlandesa — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • German: Grönländer — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • German: Grönländerin — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Greek: Γροιλανδός (Groilandós) — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Greek: Γροιλανδή (Groilandí) — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Greek: Γροιλανδέζα (Groilandéza) — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Greenlandic: kalaaleq — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Hungarian: grönlandi — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Icelandic: Grænlendingur — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Icelandic: Grænlendingar — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Inuktitut: ᐊᑯᕿᑦᑐᕐᒥᐅᑦ (akoqittormiot) — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Inupiaq: Kalaaliq — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Irish: Graonlannach — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Italian: groenlandese — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Italian: groenlandesi — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Japanese: グリーンランド人 (guriinrandojin) — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Korean: 그린란드인 (geurillandeu'in) — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Korean: 그린란드 사람 (geurillandeu saram) — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Norwegian Bokmål: grønlender — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: grønlendar — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Polish: Grenlandczyk — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Polish: Grenlandka — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Portuguese: groenlandês — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Portuguese: gronelandês — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Romanian: groenlandez — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Romanian: groenlandeză — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Russian: гренла́ндец (grenlándec) — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Slovak: Grónčan — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Slovak: Grónčanka — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Spanish: groenlandés — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Spanish: groenlandesa — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Swedish: grönländare — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Swedish: grönlänning — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Swedish: grönländska — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Turkish: Grönlandlı — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Welsh: Glasynyswr — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent
  • Welsh: Glasynyswraig — a person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent