eskimo has definitions from the field of linguistics
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[ noun ] a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')

Synonyms

Inuit Esquimau

Related terms

Indian

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[ noun ] (linguistics) the language spoken by the Eskimo people

Synonyms

Esquimau

Related terms

Eskimo-Aleut

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