ukioq

• ukioĸ (superseded)

From Proto-Inuit *ukiu- (“winter, autumn, year, spend the winter”), from Proto-Eskimo *ukju(r) (“winter, autumn, year”). Compare ukiaq (“autumn”), and ukiivoq (“spends the winter”). Cognate to Inuktitut ᐅᑭᐅᖅ (okioq), Inupiaq ukiuq.

ukioq (plural ukiut)

1. winter
   • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     Inuit BBC-meersut marloriarlutik Ammassalimmiissimapuut.siullermik^[sic] martsimi, tassa taamani ukiup sikuani aalaakkammi filmiisoqarsimavoq.

     The people from BBC have been in Ammassalik twice. The first time in March, where they filmed on winter's firm ice on the water [i.e., the ice that is not frozen year-round].

2. year
   • 1992, "Meeqqakka", Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten

     Nuliaralu siullermik ernertaarpugut, ukiut marluk qaangiummata panmissaarluta,^{[sic – meaning panissaarluta]} sulilu ukiut marluk qaangiuteqqimmata panissaaqqilluta.

     My wife and I first had a son, two years later a daughter, and another two years after that, another daughter.

• ukioqarpoq (“to be X years old”)