pupik

See also: pupík

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *pupiɣ (“sore, eruption on skin, itch”), from Proto-Eskimo *pupiɣ (“itch, sore”).

Pronunciation
  • (Nuuk) IPA(key): /pupik/, [pʊ.pɪk]

Noun

pupik (plural pupiit)

  1. mushroom, toadstool, fungus
  2. (rare) leprosy

Declension
Declension of pupik
singular plural
absolutive pupik pupiit
ergative pupiup pupiit
allative pupimmut pupinnut
ablative pupimmit pupinnit
prosecutive pupikkut pupitsigut
locative pupimmi pupinni
instrumental pupimmik pupinnik
equative pupittut pupittut

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • pupillappoq (“to have a blister in the mouth”)
  • pupinneq (“leprosy”)
  • pupissoq (“leper”)
  • pupiutaajaat (“fungicide”)
  • pupik siaangasoq (“spring cavalier”)
  • pupik immulik (“Greenlandic milk-cap”), pupik sulluaralik (“Greenlandic milk-cap”)
  • pupik mamartoq (“dark-stalked bolete”)
  • pupik niulugissoq (“bolete”)
  • pupik tassilik (“field mushroom”)

Inuktitut

Etymology

From the root pu- for "protuberance on a surface" and the morpheme -pik for "alone by itself" [1]

Noun

pupik (??? please provide syllabics spelling!)

  1. mushroom

References
  1. Louis-Jacques Dorais, "The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic", McGill-Queen's Press (2014) →ISBN ; pp.137
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