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: Eskimo, Inuit.

Dutch: Eskimo
Polish: Inuita, Inuit, Eskimos

The language spoken by the Eskimo.

synonym: Eskimo.

Dutch: Eskimo