This is a list of submitted names in which the usage is Greenlandic; and the first letter is K.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Kajoĸ m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "the brown one" (in West Greenland) or Greenlandic name meaning "the yellow one" (in North Greenland).
K'ajorapaluk m GreenlandicPossibly a combination of
qajorlak "golden plover" and
-paluk "dear little" or
qaajorpoq "is chilly, is thin-skinned" and
-paluk "dear little".
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.
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".
Kanortoĸ m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "the bleeding one", from a combination of
Kanik and
-toq, a Greenlandic suffix used to form agent nouns
K'asape m GreenlandicGreenlandic name, cognate of the word
qasagaa "feels he is not goot enough, unfit" and
-pi, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "genuine", "genuinely".
K'avak m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning 'man from the south' (term used to denote stupidity).
Kikkik m GreenlandicDirectly from
kikkik “the ugly one”, an endearing term used by parents who mean just the opposite, "the sweet one".
K'inoκ f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning 'a mush of snow in the sea', 'ice sludge'.
K'itdlaĸ m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "string (round haft of sealing dart)", "pattern/threads (of woven material)".
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'ujage m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "favoured one", "favourite", "prized", "darling".
K'ulitsaĸ m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "a man's skin overcoat of caribou skin with the hairs inward".
K'unîk f GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "ugly, untidy, fat one" (originally a nickname).
K'unínge m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "ugly, untidy, fat one" (originally a nickname).
Kunuut m GreenlandicGreenlandic form of
Knut. This was the Greenlandic name of Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933), a Danish polar explorer and anthropologist of partial Inuit descent.
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.