Paleo-Eskimo

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˌpeɪlioʊˈɛskɪmoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. plural,plural-only

词形变化

Palaeo-Eskimo alternative Palaeoeskimo alternative Paleoeskimo alternative

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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