Ulutiun dictionary

The Ulutiun dictionary is a list of terms from the Ulutiun language.

A

 * ahsukk : Iulutiun dialect: a board composed of members from each village council to arbitrate in trade disputes during trade fairs
 * aituiskotuk : Angulutiun dialect: adults who had participated in only a single migration of caribou
 * akukujik : the section of an ukujik that did not have meat pits
 * akykulutik : Nakulutiun dialect: a punishment (ykulutik) where the accused was sealed in the cave of a natural predator
 * anariak : a ritual where an ariak dressed a newborn baby
 * anarkiirik : the second syllable of a baby's name, which came from the name of an honored friend or family member
 * andlitiving : a meat-storage room
 * ahtkoat : the messenger who invited people to koatulit
 * aiskotuk : Angulutiun dialect: the group remaining after the migration of the iskotuk
 * ariak : a friend of the family who dressed a baby in his or her first clothes
 * artengak : a type of harpoon
 * awakewquka : a type of celebration for honoring one's first seal-kill

B

 * bikik : an ice sled with a square sail
 * biknach : Nakulutiun dialect: a meat-storage structure

C

 * ceenach : Nakulutiun dialect: a stone house

D

 * dinjik : a pit trap that looks like a snowhouse

E

 * eaas : Iulutiun dialect: the essence of life
 * ekaa : a barbed arrow
 * ekotupa : an arranged marriage
 * equkoku: a memorial feast for the dead
 * eyklak : a large bow

G

 * garnok : a sling with an extended handle
 * gazanga: Iulutiun dialect: the oldest male child

H

 * heteff : a white sled dog
 * hiuchupuk: a water sled
 * hukek : Angulutiun dialect: a digging spike
 * huuk : a "singdown"
 * huykulutik : Nakulutiun dialect: a punishment (ykulutik) where the accused was tied to a tree and shot with arrows

I

 * igdluarn : a snowhouse room for storing blubber and meat
 * igdluling : a long passage between snowhouse rooms
 * ijukujik : the section of an ukujik that had meat pits
 * ikaap: Angulutiun dialect: an ice sled made from caribou skins
 * ikili : Angulutiun dialect: a full migration of caribou
 * ilupiquan : the interior skin walls of a snowhouse
 * iniagok : Angulutiun dialect: morale officer
 * Innugaakalikurit : an arctic dwarf
 * intang : hoop for drying clothes
 * inuksuk : snow figures places in a V-shaped line for driving caribou
 * ipipykulutik : Nakulutiun dialect: a punishment (ykulutik) where the accused was suspended head-first inside a crevasse
 * iquemelum : a village council
 * iskotuk : Angulutiun dialect: a group of migrating humans and their caribou
 * ituiskotuk : Angulutiun dialect: aged or injured adults unable to participate in the migration of caribou
 * iuak : a machete
 * iurit : Nakulutiun dialect: assembly called by the village ruler

J

 * jakerek : single-passenger ice sled
 * jegaung : a gambling game testing one's aim
 * jokitarpo : game to make the ugliest faces
 * jukikewquka : a feast honoring a child's first kill
 * jyykach : Nakulutiun dialect: a religious edict requiring the death of all non-believers

K

 * kaituiskotuk: Angulutiun dialect: persons who have not yet participated in the migration of caribou
 * kaiurit : Nakulutiun dialect: a yearly religious edict
 * kaquling: a snowhouse's outermost, open section
 * kayak : a kayak
 * kazanga : Iulutiun dialect: the oldest female child
 * keri-keri : a game of imitating gestures
 * kiam : a village council member
 * kiirik : the first syllable of a baby's name, which came from the name of a deceased friend or family member
 * kilat : a type of drum played by slapping it against the chest or thigh
 * koatulit : a custom of inviting folk from a nearby village to live in the host village as guests of honor
 * kotupa : a voluntary marriage

Q

 * qukoku : Iulutiun dialect: a philosophy about the unity of nature

S

 * sukkiruchit : a trade fair

U

 * ukujik : a dome where meat was cut
 * urit : Nakulutiun dialect: village ruler

Y

 * ykulutik : Nakulutiun dialect: any punishment for violating a yearly religious edict