Proto-Inupik: *pau-la, *paɣɣǝ-ʁ-
Meaning: soot 1, smoke 2
Russian meaning: сажа 1, дым, копоть 2
Seward Peninsula Inupik: paulaq 1, 2
SPI Dialects: Imaq páûq 1, 2
North Alaskan Inupik: paula 1
NAI Dialects: Ingl paula* 1, 'lamp-black'
Western Canadian Inupik: paula, pauq 1
WCI Dialects: Cor pauq* 1, 'lamp-black'
Eastern Canadian Inupik: pauq 1, paulaŋiq- neg. 'to remove soot from'
Greenlandic Inupik: pāq (paoq*) 1, '(gun)powder', paxxiʁ- 'to be sooted up'
GRI Dialects: EG pāʁnālak 'sth. dirty'
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 246
