单词 | eskimoid |
释义 | Eskimoidadj.n. Anthropology and Archaeology. A. adj. Resembling or having some of the physical features or characteristics of an Eskimo. Also: of, relating to, or designating a postulated division of humankind represented by the indigenous peoples of the Arctic coasts of Canada and Greenland.Not a currently recognized term in Anthropology. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of the Arctic > [adjective] Eskimo1703 Inuit1862 Netsilik1864 Mongolioid1883 Eskimoid1889 Inuk1889 Netsilingmiut1941 Inupiaq1947 Nunamiut1951 Yupik1951 1889 Christian Union 9 June 817/2 The succession of races on our Atlantic seaboard is, first, Glacial Man; secondly, an Eskimoid race..; thirdly, the Algonkins. 1918 E. A. Hooton in Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 1 53 (title) On certain Eskimoid characters in Icelandic skulls. 1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past ix. 300 Another [racial] type…that of Chancelade, supposed to have eskimoid affinities. 2003 O. W. Frost Bering xi. 194 As early as 1945, most anthropologists believed that the Aleuts were an Eskimoid people who had moved into the islands from the Alaska mainland. B. n. A person of a postulated racial type similar to the Eskimo. Also: this racial type. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of the Arctic > [noun] Eskimo1584 Inuit1745 Skraeling1767 Inuk1876 Yuit1881 Copper Eskimo1884 Netsilik1884 Netsilingmiut1885 Caribou Eskimo1920 Eskimoid1930 Nunamiut1951 Inupiaq1957 Yupik1977 1930 46th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1928–9 43 The more pronounced Eskimoids have flatter and longer faces, more oblique eyes, and more marked epicanthus. 1977 W. W. Howells in W. W. Howells & P. J. Tsuchitani Paleoanthropol. in China 75 Wu would refute Weidenreich's idea that no. 102 and no. 103 represent an incipient Melanesoid and Eskimoid respectively. 1986 I. Rouse Migrations in Prehist. iii. 56 Like all Eskimoids, they [sc. the Norton peoples] had modern Eskimo settlement and subsistence patterns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1889 |
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