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1. The language spoken by the Eskimo
   - Esquimau
    
2. 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')
   - Esquimau, Inuit, Innuit

Derived forms: Eskimos

Type of: American Indian, Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language, Indian, Red Indian

Encyclopedia: Eskimo