Gender Feminine
Usage Indigenous American, Greenlandic, Danish
Meaning & History
From Greenlandic najaa meaning "his younger sister" [1]. It was popularized in Denmark by the writer B. S. Ingemann, who used it in his novel Kunnuk and Naja, or the Greenlanders (1842).
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Sources & References
- Greenlandic to English Dictionary, entry najaa, available from http://2010.polarhusky.com/media/cms/investigate/StudyResources/EnglishKalaallisutDictionary.pdf.
