Talk:napaaqtuq

RFV discussion: October–November 2020
Added by a French IP in the same range as a serial hoaxer. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:58, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I know that this doesn't count as verification, but it does suggest that this isn't an out-and-out hoax. —Mahāgaja · talk 21:39, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Google Books gives a few matches for the Inuit term in other languages as well as Inuktitut itself which strongly suggests that the term is real:  mention it as "spruce" in Iñupiaq;    mention it as "tree" in Inuvialuktun.  in Inuktitut itself, also "tree". Thadh (talk) 12:39, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Assuming the term is real, the usex needs to be verified as well. &mdash; surjection &lang; &rang; 20:35, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * FWIW, if it exists it is surely a cognate of 🇨🇬. In Kleinschmidt's 1871 dictionary of Greenlandic, he mentions as an aside that, in Labrador, it denotes an evergreen tree ("I Labr. et Gran- eller Fyrretræ", where according to DDO fyr means Pinus and gran means either Picea+Abies or just Picea). Also, it seems like the dominant practice is to lemmatize to the syllabic spelling, and have the Latin as a form-of.__Gamren (talk) 21:06, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * The given source lists the syllabics form as . Thadh (talk) 21:45, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I believe this is RFV passed.__Gamren (talk) 14:36, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I added information from this thread to the page itself. Now it is passed.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:18, 26 November 2020 (UTC)