Eskimologist

noun

Eskimologist

noun

Etymology From Eskimology + -ist.

1

Rare One who studies the Eskimo people; one who studies Eskimology.

  • During the later half of the 19th century interest was largely diverted to discussion of the typological character of Eskimo languages- whether they were polysynthetic in the same sense as many North American Indian languages are, as maintained, for instance, by the Danish Eskimologist Hinrik Rink (1891).1998, Michael D. Fortescue, Language Relations Across Bering Strait, page 36:

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