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Gender Masculine
Usage Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology, Inupiat
Other Forms FormsOld orthography: Navagiaĸ
Meaning & History
West Greenlandic name meaning "the one who travelled from place to place", composed of nava- meaning "exchange, moving from place to place" and -giaq meaning "travel" or "is out". In Greenlandic mythology this is the name of a character who dies and travels from animal to animal as a spirit until he is finally reborn as a human.