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Eskimologist

Eskimologist

See also: eskimologist

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Noun

Eskimologist (plural Eskimologists)

  1. (rare) One who studies the Eskimo people; one who studies Eskimology.
    • 1998, Michael D. Fortescue, Language Relations Across Bering Strait, p. 36.
      During the later half of the 19th century interest was largely diverted to discussion of the typological character of Eskimo languages- whether they were polysynthetic in the same sense as many North American Indian languages are, as maintained, for instance, by the Danish Eskimologist Hinrik Rink (1891).

Translations

eskimologist

eskimologist

See also: Eskimologist

English

Noun

eskimologist (plural eskimologists)

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of Eskimologist