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iglu.

igloo (Inuit snow house)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/iˈɡlu/Brazil/iˈɡlu/Portugal[iˈɣlu]Portugal/iˈɡlu/Portugal, Southern
  1. igloo (Inuit snow house)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo)bor. English igloobor. Portuguese iglu Borrowed from English igloo, from Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, building (of any kind)”), from Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu, from Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu. Compare Greenlandic illu.

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