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NUNATAK (n. pl. - S)
Definition(s):
- (n.) a hill or mountain peak projecting through the surface of surrounding glacial ice
Useful information for game players:
- Front hooks: (none)
- Back hooks: -S
- Anagrams: (none)
- Longer extensions: (none)
- Wraparounds: (none)
- Other Spellings: (none)
- Related Forms: (none)
Epilogue:
Greenland doesn’t come up very often in discussions of language, but when it does, as you might expect, it involves words related to the cold, ice, and rugged landscapes that characterize it. The Inuit and Eskimo-Aleut languages, the tongues of the native peoples of the Arctic regions, have contributed quite a few unusual words to English — more of which will be profiled in future Word of the Day installments — but only a couple can be clearly traced to vast, icy Greenland. In addition to today’s word, Greenlandic Inuit is believed to be the source for PINGO (“a dome-shaped mound consisting of a layer of soil covering a core of ice”) and ANORAK (“a heavy, fur-lined jacket with a hood”). ANORAK is also British slang for “a dull person, or a person obsessively interested in a niche topic.” I wouldn’t know anything about that....
This week’s theme: Words starting with the letter N
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