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Inuit

//ˈɪnjuːɪt// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Inuktitut, the Inuit language.
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland.
  2. 2
    plural of Inuk form-of, plural
  3. 3
    a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (‘eaters of raw flesh’) but they call themselves the Inuit (‘the people’) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.

Etymology 2

First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.

Etymology 3

First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.

Etymology 4

First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.

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