ESKIMO

noun Etymology: obsolete Esquimawe, probably from Spanish esquimao, from Montagnais (Algonquian language of eastern Canada) aiachkime8 Micmac, ~; probably akin to modern Montagnais assimew she laces a snowshoe, Ojibwa aškime Date: 1584 a member of a group of peoples of northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and eastern Siberia, any of the languages of the ~ peoples, ~an adjective