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Greenlander

noun

  1. person from Greenland
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noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English Greenland Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English Greenlander From Greenland + -er.

  1. A person from Greenland or of Greenlandic descent.

    1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IV. "The Beach", page 54. Were it not for this, we Europeans should have no wood to burn there, and the poor Greenlanders […] would, however, have no wood to roof their houses, to erect their tents, as also to build their boats, and to shaft their arrows.

    In a recent poll conducted by the Universities of Greenland and Copenhagen, more than two-thirds of Greenlanders expressed a desire for their country to become independent, most of them within 20 years.