pingo

Pronunciation: /¹ˈpɪŋ.ɡo/

“pingo” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its meaning in English:

noun

pingo; a usually conical mound of earth or other loose material with a core of ice, occurring in regions of permafrost

Etymology

Borrowed from Greenlandic pingu (“tussock, small hill, hillock”), from Proto-Inuit *piŋu (“mound, dune, hillock, swelling”), ultimately from Proto-Eskimo *pǝŋu (“hill, swelling”). Cognate with Inuktitut pingu (“hummock, small hill”) and Yup'ik penguq (“hill, mound”). The term was adopted internationally as a technical term for an ice-cored permafrost mound during the 20th century.

More Norwegian Bokmål words

pinadø
pinadød
pine
pinede
pingvin
pinje
pinlig
pinne

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