A few Inuit words

Angutiksaulirijut
Sleeping with a man’s wife while he has gone to sleep with someone else’s wife.

Asak&iqtuq
Listening to one’s wife’s every whim.

Irralittuq
The estimated curved trajectory that you knew your arrow was going to travel.

Isumagijunnairvigijuq
A person who can listen to another person’s problems or confessions of wrong doing without being affected by them.

Taqtaqtut
Term used for the French language by elders. It has since been replaced by the term uiviitut by younger speakers.

Turauttuijuq
Someone who heard there were animals in a certain place and went there and didn’t find any.

Ungumajuq
To guard or watch over something, such as a child or meat.

—Jarich Oosten, Frédéric Laugrand (eds), Travelling and Surviving on Our Land