English Explanatory Dictionary

Saqqaq

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The Paleo-Eskimo people who inhabited west-central Greenland circa 2500–800BC and who formed the Saqqaq culture.

Pronunciation

/sɑːkək/

Word forms

Saqqaq

Etymology

From the Greenlandic Saqqaq, a settlement in the Avannaata municipality of western Greenland, near which archaeological excavations discovered remains of the eponymous Saqqaq culture.

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