orpik meqqutaasalik = conifer in West Greenlandic
West Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) is a really interesting polysynthetic language from the Eskimo-Aleut family. It is an official language of Greenland.
In polysynthetic languages word (or rather sentence-words) are composed of multiple morphemes.
meqqut = sewing needle
USAQ [morpheme] = something like a
meqqut + USAQ > meqqutaasaq = something like a sewing needle
LIK [morpheme] = having, equipped with
meqqut + USAQ + LIK > meqqutaasalik = having things like sewing needles
orpik meqqutaasalik = a tree having things like sewing needles
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