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English
Etymology
From Eskimology + -ist.
Noun
Eskimologist (plural Eskimologists)
- (rare) One who studies the Eskimo people; one who studies Eskimology.
1998, Michael D. Fortescue, Language Relations Across Bering Strait, page 36: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).
Translations
one who studies the Eskimo people