Mattak
The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Mar 1997
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Wesley Parsons (7065) — 20 Mar 1997, 18:18

> > Gee, will Mattak be a chip off the old block?<<

I understand from some of the same sources that mattak means "dried
whale flesh" in Inuit.  (I assume in a particular Inuit dialect--there's more
than one.)

Oosik and Mattak, like many members of Vironese families, have related
names.



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