Vehicles

1. qimusseq

   Dog sled

   Usage

   The word covers the dogs and the sled together. Sled dogs may only be kept north of 66 degrees, where this is genuine winter transport

2. qamutit

   Sled

   Usage

   The sled itself, and a general term for what travels over ice and snow

3. snescooteri

   Snowmobile

   Usage

   A Danish loanword; alongside the dog sled, this is how people move in winter

4. umiarsuaq

   Ship

   Usage

   There are no roads between towns, so the coastal ship is the real bus route

5. angallat

   Vessel / craft

   Usage

   A broad word for a ship, boat or conveyance

6. qajaq

   Kayak

   Usage

   The origin of the English word kayak — the Inuit one-person craft, still used for sport and tourism

7. helikopteri

   Helicopter

   Usage

   It runs scheduled services to settlements without a runway, and weather cancels flights often

8. timmisartoq

   Airplane

   Usage

   A native word meaning "the one that flies"; travel between towns is essentially by air

9. mittarfik

   Airport / heliport

   Usage

   One word covers runway, landing strip and heliport

10. ikaartaat

    Ferry

    Usage

    The boat that takes you across

11. biili

    Car

    Usage

    From Danish "bil". Roads exist only inside a town — you cannot drive out of one

12. bussi

    Bus

    Usage

    Larger towns such as Nuuk have city buses; a stop is "unittarfik"

13. taxa

    Taxi

    Usage

    "To go by taxi" is a single verb, "taxarpoq"

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