Languagle #30: Greenlandic
Silarsuaq
silarsuaq
"The world. Literally, "the great sila.""
What it means
Greenlandic builds long words out of small pieces. Here "sila", which means the weather, the world outside, and consciousness itself, all on one word, takes the ending "-suaq", meaning great or vast. So the word for the world is the weather, and the mind, made enormous.
What kind of saying it is
From a named work. This one comes from a written work, so it has an author behind it.
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