Proto-Inupik: *pụịnǝ̣ʁ, *purnǝʁ
Meaning: fat risen to surface 1, butter 2
Russian meaning: жир на поверхности 1, масло 2
Seward Peninsula Inupik: puiniq 1
SPI Dialects: Imaq púnɨq 'frozen fat layer', W puiniq* (īk, nẹʁit) 1
North Alaskan Inupik: puińɨq (ʁ) 'fat rising to top of cooking broth', punnɨq (ʁ) 'bread, yeast bread'
NAI Dialects: Qaw punniq 1
Western Canadian Inupik: puiniq 1
WCI Dialects: Cor puiniq*, pwiniq* 1, Car punniʁnaq 'fat boiled from caribou bones' [Ras.]
Eastern Canadian Inupik: punniq 1, 'shortening, kidney fat'
Greenlandic Inupik: punniq (ʁ) (pungneq* [Fab.]) 1
GRI Dialects: NG puiniq 'river water that has oozed up and refrozen on surface', WG putsinniq (ʁ), puffiniq (ʁ) 2
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 266
