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Inuit

UK/ˈɪnjuːɪt/ US/ˈɪnuːɪt/ uncommon

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'')

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Origin

First attested 1755-65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.

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