Paleo-Eskimo

English

Alternative forms

less-common alternative forms
  • Palae-Eskimo (uncommon, dated)
  • Palaeeskimo (rare)
  • Palæ-Eskimo, Palæeskimo (rare; archaic or used by non-native speakers)

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".[1]

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌpeɪlioʊˈɛskɪmoʊ/

Noun

Paleo-Eskimo pl (plural only)

  1. 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.

See also

References

  1. ^ First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America →ISBN, 2009), page 214
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