kipisi

< maybe from Swahili kipisi "(little) piece (of wood); cut wood"

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Linguistic coincidences & curiosities

Sometimes different languages coincidentally come to have similar-sounding words with similar or even identical meanings. For example, Swedish "koja" and Japanese "koya" (小屋) happen to mean the same...

So far I've been able to find this:

[PDF]Iñupiat Eskimo dictionary - Alaska State Library

p.49

uluun saw
kipluun (K), kivluun (N) cross-cut saw

p.50
kivluktuk cuts across

p.102
kipaluak steep undercut river bank

p.134
ikpiktitaktuk bank is being undercut by water
i.kpi.kt i.taktu k

p.140
kipriruk (K), kirriruk (N) cuts off, severs
kipligaa cuts it in two, severs it

and

p.122
ipiktuk is sharp

p.53
pisiksi (N), siksi (K) bow
https://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/docs/anlm/200078.pdf

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Greenlandic to English Dictionary

p.288
kipivaa
kipivâ
cuts it off; shortens, interrupts it;
circumcises him.

kipisaq
kipissaq
something from which a piece

kipiuippoq
kipiuípoq
is never cut off; never ceases;
continues incessantly.

kipiuitsumik, kipisuitsumik
kipiuitsumik, kipisuitsumik
uninterruptedly; without cessation.

http://2010.polarhusky.com/media/cms/investigate/StudyResources/EnglishKalaallisutDictionary.pdf

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