This is a list of submitted names in which the gender is masculine; and the usage is Greenlandic.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Mano m GreenlandicMeans "under chin" or "frost crystals formed from breath" in Greenlandic.
Masauna m GreenlandicGreenlandic name with the combination of
masaut (masaujjuq) meaning "wet snow" and suffix
-na.
Masik m & f GreenlandicFrom Greenlandic
masik meaning "the curved cross-tree in front of the ring of a kayak" and from Greenlandic
masik meaning "gills (of a fish)", depending per dialect.
Merĸusâĸ m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "featherlike" or "that which resembles feather" or "new or recently grown fur".
Milliaq m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "umbilical cord". Alternatively it could mean "a piece of skin or cloth placed under food, mat, dish", or it could be a 'Greenlandic shaman's language name' meaning "an older brother to a girl".
Mineĸ f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "little bit" (originally a diminutive ending).
Napârtoĸ m & f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "standing upright" or "Greenland mountain ash".
Nasaussaĸ f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "hood of a woman's furjacket" or "the bladder on the head of a hooded seal".
Navagiaq m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology, InupiatWest Greenlandic name meaning "the one who travelled from place to place", composed of
nava- meaning "exchange, moving from place to place" and -
giaq meaning "travel" or "is out". In Greenlandic mythology this is the name of a character who dies and travels from animal to animal as a spirit until he is finally reborn as a human.
Níngut m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "line", "rope" (with which something is lowered); "spider's web".
Niviaq f & m GreenlandicDerived from the Greenlandic word
niviarsiaq "girl" (compare
Niviarsiaq), possibly meaning "reincarnated as a girl".
Nukartâĸ m & f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "newborn younger sibling of speaker's gender".
Nukartâva f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "his/her new little brother/sister". Combination of
Nukartâĸ and suffix
-a, possessive-genitive marker.
Nûno f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic pet name for a baby/the youngest child in the family.
Pâjuk m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "oarsman", "rowing one" (in a kayak).
Patdleĸ m & f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "(dwarf) willow" or "alder" (Lat. Alnus crispa).
Pilo f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "bog bilberry, great bilberry, whortleberry".... [
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Piloĸutínguaĸ f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning 'sweet little leaf', from a combination of
Pilutaĸ and
-nnguaq, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "sweet", "dear", "little" or Grennlandic name meaning "sweet little berry", from a combination of
Piloĸ and
-nnguaq, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "sweet", "dear", "little".
Qasallak m GreenlandicGreenlandic 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... [
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Quissik m Greenlandic, Inuit MythologyMeans "urinated on" in Greenlandic. Quissik was the name of a shaman, still remembered in local legends, who acquired that name when foxes in human figure urinated on him.