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Nameguide
Nameguide You can find the meaning of a name and where it comes from here

loanword from Athabaskan Indian

that there is at least one loanword from Athabaskan Indian in the Greenlandic language? The word for frog, naraseq, comes from the Athabaskan word noruye.

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