Source: "Iktsuarpok", nunawhaa (WordPress blog)

Author: blog author writes under the name "nunawhaa" (not further resolved); post compiles and comments on definitions from other websites rather than presenting original research
Publication: nunawhaa.wordpress.com
Date: 17 August 2011 (post date); at least one comment dated 2019 (commenter "onikin")
URL: https://nunawhaa.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/iktsuarpok/
Type: secondary (critical blog commentary + comment thread), skeptical — the one source found this session that explicitly questions the popular gloss's rigor
Accessed: 2026-09-05

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The post explicitly criticizes the popular-genre sources it surveys for vagueness: "no one uses the word 'Inuktitut' and no indication of where the word 'iktsuarpok' comes from. Canadian Inuit? Greenlandic? Alaskan?" — a direct complaint that the popular genre's own citation practice never specifies which Inuit language/dialect the word is drawn from, despite "Inuit"/"Eskimo" covering multiple distinct languages across a huge geographic range (see Inuktitut, Eskimo-Aleut languages).
A 2019 commenter, "onikin," attempts a morphological breakdown: possible components "iqsua-" ("repeatedly") and "-siurpuq" ("look for, hunt") — offered with explicit uncertainty and acknowledged inconsistency across the dictionary sources the commenter checked.
Another commenter states plainly that despite the word's currency on "linguist websites, there is no analysis or anyone bothering to check" — i.e., a direct, on-the-record complaint that the popular genre repeats itself without ever tracing the word to a primary Inuktitut-language source.
No commenter or the post author claims personal fluency in or knowledge of Inuktitut; the skepticism is about sourcing practice, not a native speaker's rejection of the word (contrast the sharper, first-hand Mamihlapinatapai complication, where the last fluent Yaghan speaker herself reportedly did not recognize that word when asked directly — no comparable direct native-speaker test was found or attempted for iktsuarpok this session).

The blog author's real identity/expertise (if any) in Inuit languages or Nunavut/Nunavik culture is not established from this post.
The 2019 commenter's morpheme breakdown was not checked against a primary Inuktitut grammar or dictionary this session.