Puktaaq - Floating ice

Indigenous Knowledge

Puttaaq
'small piece of floating sea ice. Usually ice cake (any relatively flat piece of sea ice less than 20 m across) or small ice cake (an ice cake less than 2 m across). Cf. putta- be afloat.' (Kalaallisut, Tersis and Taveniers 2010: 418)

Puktaat ᐳᒃᑖᑦ
'Small pieces of floating ice.' (Sanikiluaq Siku Terminology Workshop, 2018)

Puktaaq ᐳᒃᑖᖅ
'ᓯᑯ  ᓯᖁᑦᑎᕐᓯᒪᔪᖅ  ᐳᒃᑕᓛᕐᖢᑎᒃ. a free floating piece of ice, meaning "it's floating"; could refer to almost anything floating.' (North/South Qikiqtaaluk, Inuit Siku Atlas)

Sikuġaq 
'small chunk of floating ice' (North Alaskan Iñupiaq, https://inupiaqonline.com/siku%C4%A1aq)

Western Knowledge

Possibly related English terms:

Ice Cake
'Any relatively flat piece of ice less than 20 metres across.' (MANICE)

Small Ice Cake
'An ice cake less than 2 metres across.' (MANICE)

English

Term Dialect
Floating ice Standard English

Greenlandic

Term Dialect
Kassut Avanersuaq
Nappat Tunumiit oraasiat
Puttaaq Kalaallisut

Inuktut

Term Dialect
Puktaaq South Qikiqtaaluk, North Qikiqtaaluk, Aivilingmiutut, Kivallirmiutut, Nattilingmiutut
Puttaaq Nunavimmiutitut - Sanikiluarmiut
Puttâk Nunatsiavummiutut

Inupiaq

Term Dialect
Puktaaq North Alaskan Iñupiaq, Seward Peninsula Inupiaq

Yupik

Term Dialect
Pugtalriit Central Alaskan Yup'ik

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