Greenlandic
adjective
Greenlandic is an adjective meaning “Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-E-E-N-L-A-N-D-I-C, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Greenlandic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Greenlandic?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-greenlandic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is Greenlandic?
Greenlandic appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Greenlandic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, its people or language:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | groenlandais |
| German | grönländisch |
| Portuguese | groenlandês, gronelandês |
| Spanish | groenlandés |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Greenlandic come from?
From Greenland + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).