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How did word taboo change the word for eye in Tunumiisut?
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In the Tunumiisut dialect of East Greenlandic, the traditional Eskimo-Aleut languages word for "eye" was replaced due to the practice of word taboo. It was substituted with the term uitsatai, which is derived from the components ui-sa and uta-i, translating literally to "those by which he keeps gazing."1