Proto-Inupik: *uiv-aʁ-, *uiv-ra-ʁ-
Meaning: to go around 1, to go in a (full) circle, to turn round and round 2
Russian meaning: ходить вокруг, кругами 1, делать оборот, крутиться вокруг 2
Seward Peninsula Inupik: ~ uivaq- 'to come into sight,m to visit', uivrāq- intens., uivralak- 2
SPI Dialects: Imaq ujúʔmun 'around'
North Alaskan Inupik: uivaq-, uivvaq- 1 (a promontary), uivraluktuq- 'to do somersaults'
NAI Dialects: Uum uivvaŋani 'around it' [Lowe]
Western Canadian Inupik: uivaq- 1 (e.g. house)
Eastern Canadian Inupik: uivaq- 1, uijja(C)- intens. 2, uivvaq 'cape, point of land,, trip around peninsula'
Greenlandic Inupik: iuviʁ- 'to gambol, to run about', uiaʁ- 'to pass around headland or the like', uiffaq (ʁ) 'promontory one must sail around', ~ uiššaʁ- (uivssâr-*) 'to get dizzy (and fall)'
GRI Dialects: NG uivaq- 'to travel south on a long hunting trip in the spring', uissaq- intens. 2 [Holt.]
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 386, 387
