eskimo

noun ! Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about eskimo at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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').
2. The language spoken by the Eskimo.