Paleo-Eskimo

短语

发音

US /ˌpeɪlioʊˈɛskɪmoʊ/

词形变化

only 复数

别名

Palaeoeskimo Palaeo-Eskimo Paleoeskimo

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    仅复数

词源

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".

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