Proto-Inupik: *imau-, *imaʁu-ʁ-
Meaning: to be wet 1, to melt into water 2
Russian meaning: мокрый, мочиться 1, таять 2
Seward Peninsula Inupik: imau- 1, imaʁuq- 2
North Alaskan Inupik: imau- 1 , imaʁuq- 2 (snow or or ice), 'to get water on self or s.o. else, to open up (expance of water)'
Eastern Canadian Inupik: imaʁuq- 2
Greenlandic Inupik: imaʁuʁ- 'to break up ice, to become open water'
GRI Dialects: EG imāʁ- 'to break up ice, to bome open water'
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 130, 131
