A nanuk is another name for a polar bear. It comes from the Inuit language.
The Inuit name for the Polar Bear is "Nanuk", meaning "an animal worthy of great respect." While in their poetry, the Inuit word they use for Polar Bear is, "Pihoqahiak", meaning "the ever-wandering one". Additional Spelling; Nannuraluk, and Nanuq.
The word, Inuit, meaning people but specifically reffering to the aboriginal people of the Arctic, is pronouced: In - yoo - eet. The singular is: Inuk (in-ook) and the language is: Inuktitut (in-ook-tee-toot).
The Inuit word 'nanook' has its roots in Inuit mythology. Nanook decided if hunters deserved to be successful in their endeavours to find and hunt bears. It is from this myth that Nanook has come to mean 'master of bears', in some cases the term is also used to mean 'polar bear'.
It may be based on the Inuit word kenai which means black bear or Kenayskaya which was the Russian name for "flat barren land".
The CH are pronounced as SH and the word rhymes with bear, so it'll be "sher".
you pronounce it bearesheet or בראשית. first you say bear then the EA sound and then simply sheet and that's how you pronounce the word
The French word "ours" is pronounced like "oorss."
"What is the name of a Inuit snow house?" The Inuit word for an Inuit snow house is Igluvigak.
This is a French word and the general rule is that if you pronounce a word that ends in a consonant by itself, the word's last letter drops. The word is pronounced "Bear-a" or "Ber-a".
In Inuit, the word "Inuit" means "the people." It is the plural form of "Inuk," which means "person."
Inuit word for grandmother is called (Aanak). My father's mother is my Aanak. Inuit word for grandma is called (Anaatsiaq). My mother's mother is my Anaanatsiaq. Each different group of Inuit have their own language. There is no universal Inuit language.