(复同单, 或-os)
1
- a member of an indigenous people inhabiting northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia, and traditionally living by hunting seals and other Arctic animals and birds and by fishing爱斯基摩人。
2
- mass noun either of the two main languages of this people (Inuit and Yupik), comprising a major division of the Eskimo-Aleut family爱斯基摩语（爱斯基摩人所用两种主要语言伊努伊特语和尤皮克语中的任何一种, 两者构成爱斯基摩-阿留申语族的一大分支）。
- of or relating to the Eskimos or their languages（与）爱斯基摩人（有关）的; （与）爱斯基摩语（有关）的。
USAGE
In recent years, the word Eskimo has come to be regarded as offensive （partly through the associations of the now discredited folk etymology 'one who eats raw flesh'）. The peoples inhabiting the regions from NW Canada to western Greenland prefer to call themselves Inuit： see usage at Inuit. The term Eskimo, however, continues to be the only term which can be properly understood as applying to the people as a whole and is still widely used in anthropological and archaeological contexts.
词源
via French Esquimaux, possibly from Spanish esquimao, esquimal, from Montagnais ayaškimew 'person who laces a snowshoe', probably applied first to the Micmac and later to the Eskimo （see HUSKY2）.