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Minik (given name)

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Minik is a Greenlandic Inuit name meaning "viscid train oil which is being used as sealing for skin boats".[1] The name was given to Prince Vincent of Denmark, born in 2011, as one of his middle names.

Notable people

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  • Minik, later Minik Wallace (ca. 1890 – 1918), an Inuit brought to the United States of America from Greenland along with five other Inuit in 1897 by explorer Robert Peary

Notes

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  1. ^ "Minik - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics".