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Gender Masculine
Usage Greenlandic
Meaning & History
Greenlandic name meaning "lightweight red wood". It was also a term for a piece of soft red wood shaped as human with a weapon and placed in the inner forefront of a qajaq to ward off witches, since it was believed that they were afraid of this piece of wood. This name is also related to K'asape.