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单词 Paleo-Eskimo
释义

Paleo-Eskimo

English

Alternative forms

  • Palaeo-Eskimo, Palaeoeskimo
  • Paleoeskimo

Etymology

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/

Adjective

Paleo-Eskimo (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants and/or native cultures of the North American Arctic region before the rise of the modern Eskimo cultures in the region; of or pertaining to the Saqqaq, Independence I and II, and/or Dorset cultures and/or their peoples.

See also

  • Neoeskimo
  • Paleo-Eskimo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

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