This is a list of submitted names in which the gender is feminine; and the usage is Indigenous American; and the place is Greenland.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Imínguaĸ f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "sweet little water". Combination of
Ime and
-nnguaq "sweet, dear".
Ineĸunâĸ f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "handsome", "beautiful", "sweet", "attractive" (variant form of
Ineĸo).
Iseq f GreenlandicGreenlandic feminine name taken from the word
iseq meaning "steam, smoke".
Ivalo f Greenlandic, DanishOlder form of
Ivalu (according to the 1973 spelling reform of Greenlandic) as well as a Danish variant. It is borne by Princess Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda of Denmark (2011-).
Ivalorssuaĸ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "big tendon, thread, sinew" with the combination of
Ivalo and -rsuaq meaning "big, great".
Ivik m & f GreenlandicMeans "(blade of) grass" in Greenlandic. This name is more commonly given to boys.... [
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Ivínguaĸ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "sweet little grass" with the combination of
Ivik and -nnguaq meaning "sweet, dear".
Kamik f & m GreenlandicFrom Greenlandic
kamik "kamik", "soft boot made of reindeer or sealskin". Soles, kamiks (boots), legs and feet were linked to sexuality and reproduction, hunting and magic (success in hunting) in traditional society.
Kanenstenhawi f Indigenous American, Mohawk, HistoryMeans "she brings in corn" in Mohawk. This was the Mohawk name given to Eunice Williams (1696-1785), a Massachusetts colonist who was taken captive by the French and the Mohawks.
Kaneq f GreenlandicGreenlandic feminine name from the word
kaneq meaning "rime, hoarfrost".
Kanik f & m GreenlandicDerived from the Greenlandic words
kanuk or
kanik meaning "blood".
Kapei f & m Pemon, Indigenous American, New World MythologyMeaning “
Moon” in Taurepang (a member of the Pemon micro family of Cariban languages), Kapei is the Taurepang deity of the moon, who appears most famously in the Taurepang folktale ‘Wei and Kapei’.
K'inoκ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning 'a mush of snow in the sea', 'ice sludge'.
K'itura f GreenlandicArchaic spelling of
Qitura (according to the old Kleinschmidt orthography which was used to write Greenlandic until 1973, when orthographic reforms were introduced)... [
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K'ivioĸ m & f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning 'down on a birds skin' or 'wooly hair or fleece on an animals skin' or 'fluff or down from plants'.
Kona f Greenlandic (Archaic)Derived from Old Norse
kona meaning "woman" or "wife", a loanword from the Norse period (985-1470) which was later used in the pidgin between European whalers and Greenlanders. The name
Kona was common in Southern Greenland and later spread to Western and Northern Greenland.
K'ôrĸa f GreenlandicArchaic spelling of
Qooqqa (according to the old Kleinschmidt orthography used to write Greenlandic until 1973, when orthographic reforms were introduced).
K'uâ f GreenlandicPossibly came from the Greenlandic word
quaq meaning 'frozen meat'.
K'ûik f & m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "the narrow bone in the hind flipper of a seal".
K'unîk f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "ugly, untidy, fat one" (originally a nickname).
K'upaluna f GreenlandicGreenlandic name deriving from
qupaluk, another word for
qupaloraarsuk meaning "snow bunting".
Kuuna f GreenlandicReformed spelling of
Kona, a Greenlandic name meaning "woman, wife" in Old Norse.
Laatsiaq f GreenlandicA Greenlandic form of
Rahab, formed using the Greenlandic suffix -
tsiaq meaning "beautiful, precious, fair-sized".
Maaxiiriwia f Indigenous American, HidatsaMeans "buffalo bird woman". Name borne by a Hidatsa woman known for maintaining many aspects of the traditional Hidatsa lifestyle, including gardening and cooking.
Magserannguaq m & f GreenlandicDerived from Greenlandic
massippoq meaning "rising half up from a horizontal position" and the suffix -
nnguaq "sweet, dear", with the implied meaning "flower which is raised up by the heat of the sun, whilst small pieces of ice are still above it" (according to the Greenlandic author Karl Siegstad).... [
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Malîna f GreenlandicMeans "the one to follow", cognate of
malippaa ("to follow someone") and the suffix -
na (denotes a personal name). In Greenlandic mythology Malîna is the goddess of the sun and the sister of
Anningan, god of the moon... [
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Malina f Inuit Mythology, GreenlandicIn Inuit mythology, Malina is the name of a solar goddess. She is constantly fleeing from her brother, the moon god
Igaluk (Inuit) or
Anningan (Grenlandic), and their eternal chase explains the movement of the sun and moon through the sky.
Mángilik f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "the one with the drum song", from a combination of
manngaluartoq "singing (drum-)songs" and
-lik, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "equipped with" that denotes that the the root word is a form of amulet or helper spirit.
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.