Paleo-Eskimoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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".^[1]

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌpeɪlioʊˈɛskɪmoʊ/

名詞

Paleo-Eskimo pl (複数形 only)

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.

参考

• Neoeskimo
• Paleo-Eskimo on Wikipedia.

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