How to pronounce nunatak
American English pronunciation
NUN-uh-tak
- IPA
- /ˈnʌnəˌtæk/
- Syllables
- NUN · uh · tak (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What nunatak means
A rocky peak poking up through a glacier's ice
In a sentence: From the plane we saw a dark nunatak rising out of the endless white ice.
Where it comes from: It was borrowed from Greenlandic, the language of Greenland.
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