Indulgences

1. tupa

   Tobacco

   Usage

   Tobacco itself. To smoke it — pipe or cigarette alike — is pujortarpoq; "does not smoke" is pujortarneq ajorpoq

2. sikaritsi

   Cigarette

   Usage

   sikaritsi and cigaretti are synonyms, and either is understood. A pack is sikaritsit poortat and a cigarette butt is sikaritsikoq

3. silittoq

   Rolling tobacco

4. sukuluussaq

   Chewing tobacco

5. sunoorsit

   Snuff, snus

   Usage

   Snuff. To take a pinch is sunoorserpoq and the box is sunoorsivik. It belongs to the Nordic snus tradition and is used in Greenland too

6. pujortaat

   Tobacco pipe

   Usage

   A pipe for smoking; the root is pujoq, "smoke". "It is his pipe" is pujortaatigaa

7. ikittaat

   Lighter

   Usage

   The thing you light things with; the root is ikippoq, "catches fire". Note that lighters and matches may not go in checked baggage, on domestic flights included

8. sukkulaat

   Chocolate

   Usage

   Chocolate. The thin slices laid on open sandwiches are sukkulaat qallersuut (Danish pålægschokolade), and "fancies some chocolate" is sukkulaatiguppoq

9. mamakujuit

   Sweets, candy

   Usage

   The general word for sweets, always plural; the Danish gloss is slik. A variant form is mamakujuttut, and to eat sweets is mamatorpoq

10. sukkuaraq

    A hard sweet, boiled sweet

    Usage

    A single hard sweet; the root is sukkut, "sugar", and the Danish gloss is bolsje

11. kaagi

    Cake

    Usage

    Cake, laid out across the whole table at a kaffemik. To bake is kaagiliorpoq, a home-baked cake is kaagiliaq and the cake tin is kaagilivik

12. illoq

    Pastry to go with coffee

    Usage

    Baked sweets or bread served with coffee (Danish brød til kaffen). "With pastries" is illulerlugu. Warning: the same spelling exists as two other words ("cousin" and "dance partner"), so use it only where it is clear that food is meant

13. kissaallak

    Snaps, a shot of spirits

    Usage

    A distilled spirit comparable to Nordic snaps. The original meaning is "something that warms the body". Warning: Greenland restricts alcohol sales by time and day, and some settlements have stopped sales by local vote. It is a different word from the interjection kissaallak! ("how it warms you!") and unrelated to kissaat (wish, hope), so do not confuse them

14. kaajallak

    Brandy, aquavit

    Usage

    A distilled spirit (corresponding to akvavit, brændevin and snaps). Warning: Greenland restricts alcohol sales by time and day, and some settlements have stopped sales by local vote. If you take it out of town, check the rules at your destination

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