[Es.ki.mo] n [obs. Esquimawe, prob. fr. Sp esquimao, fr. Montagnais (Algonquian language of eastern Canada) aiachkime8 Micmac, Eskimo; prob. akin to modern Montagnais assimew she laces a snowshoe, Ojibwa ashkime] (1584) 1 pl Eskimo or Eskimos : a member of a group of peoples of northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and eastern Siberia
2: any of the languages of the Eskimo peoples -- Es.ki.mo.an adj