timiak

Pronunciation: /¹ˈtiːmiak/

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

noun

a birdskin jacket; a traditional Inuit jacket or shirt made from bird skins, traditionally worn with the feathers or down facing inward

Etymology

Borrowed from Greenlandic timmiaq (“birdskin jacket”), from Proto-Inuit *tǝŋmi(r)a- (“bird, small bird”), from Proto-Eskimo *tǝʁmira- (“bird, goose”). Compare the parallel borrowing Danish timiak.

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