| 词汇 | kabloona |
| 词源 | kabloona. A Canadian word meaning a white person, a Euro- pean. Used chiefly in Arctic Canada, it was first recorded about 1765 and derives from the Inuit qablunaaq, which does not mean “person with big eyebrows” as it is often translated, but comes from the Inuit gava, “south,” suggesting a person who comes from the south. |
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