PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. The specialist philological study reconstructs independent Eskimo and Turkic histories and explicitly rejects genealogical or borrowing scenarios.
/qa.jaq/ · noun
The Greenlandic word for a kayak, part of an Inuit and Proto-Eskimo word family whose history is independent of the nearly identical Turkish boat word kayık.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Directly tests and rejects the Turkish–Eskimo comparison.
Title, abstract, and conclusionDocuments the other side of the resemblance.
Güncel Türkçe Sözlük — kayıkDocuments one side of the resemblance.
Qajaq-terms — qajaqA sourced context link records the seductive resemblance as non-ancestry.