Inuit

• Innuit

First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inuit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inuk, “person”), from Proto-Eskimo *inguɣ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnjuːɪt/, /ˈɪnʊɪt/

Inuit (plural Inuits or Inuit)

1. A member of any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland.

• Eskimo (potentially offensive in Alaska, Canada, Greenland)
• Inuk (proper singular form, uncommon)
• Inuits (somewhat improper plural, rare)
• Inupiat, Inupiaq, Iñupiaq, or Inupik (Alaska)
• Inuvialuit (Northwest Territories)
• Inuinnaq (Western Nunavut, Central Arctic Canada)
• Nunavummiut (Nunavut)
• Nunavimmiut (Nunavik, Northern Quebec)
• Labrador Inuit (Nunatsiavut, Labrador)
• Greenlander (Greenland)
• Kalaallit (southwest Greenland)
• Skraeling (historical)

• Canadian Inuit dog, Inuit dog

• Inukshuk

Inuit

1. Inuktitut, the Inuit language.

• Inupiatun, or Inupiak, and Qawiaraq (Alaska)
• Inuvialuktun (Northwest Territories)
• Inuinnaqtun (Western Nunavut, Central Arctic Canada)
• Inuktitut (Nunavut)
• Nunavimmiutitut (Nunavik, Northern Quebec)
• Nunatsiavummiutut, Labradorimiutut, or locally Inuttut (Nunatsiavut, Labrador)
• Greenlandic, or Kalaallisut (Greenland)

Inuit (comparative more Inuit, superlative most Inuit)

1. Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture.

The northern indigenous peoples of North America used to be called Eskimo, but the term has declined in usage in North America because it was erroneously thought to derive from a pejorative; see the usage notes at Eskimo. Inuit is the accepted term in Canada, and has gained some currency in the United States. However, Eskimo continues to be the prevalent name in Alaska, and worldwide, for both the Inuit Inupiat people and the non-Inuit Yupik.

Also note that the terms Inuit and Eskimo do not include the related Aleut people (Unangam), nor the other Native (First Nations) peoples of the Arctic.

Many dictionaries do not list Inuits as a plural form. Inuit is usually used as an ethnonym with no singular form (like Chinese). The need to treat Inuit as a singular has been obviated by wider recognition of its etymological singular form Inuk in recent times.

• Inuitisation, inuitisation
• Inuitise, inuitise
• Inuitization, inuitization
• Inuitize, inuitize

Inuit

1. plural of Inuk

• “Inuit” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• “Inuit” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Inuit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eskimo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inuktitut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inuit language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inuit, “the people”).

Inuit m (plural Inuits, feminine Inuite)

1. Inuit (people)

• inuit
• inuktitut

• Inuit/Inuk (Recommandation linguistique du Bureau de la traduction)

Inuit

1. plural of Inuk