Esquimau

es·qui·mau

uncommon archaic

noun

1.

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

2.

the language spoken by the Eskimo people

Synonyms

Eskimo

Related words

Broader terms

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Grammar

noun
singular	esquimau
plural	esquimaux, esquimaus

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