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Paleo-Eskimo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌpeɪlioʊˈɛskɪmoʊ/ (US)

Etymology

From paleo- (“old, primeval”) + Eskimo. The scholar David J. Meltzer writes that the people are "badly named: there is nothing to indicate they are ancestral Eskimo or spoke an Eskimo language; today's Eskimo refer to them as the Tuniit".

Meanings

1. (plural, plural-only) The inhabitants and/or native cultures of the North American Arctic region before the rise of the modern Eskimo cultures in the region; the Saqqaq, Independence I and II, and/or Dorset cultures and peoples.

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Relateds

Neoeskimo