Associations to the word «Esquimau»
Wiktionary
ESQUIMAU, proper noun. (archaic) Eskimo (the language)
ESQUIMAU, proper noun. (archaic) Eskimo (the group of people)
ESQUIMAU, noun. (archaic) Eskimo (a member of the group)
Dictionary definition
ESQUIMAU, noun. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people').
ESQUIMAU, noun. The language spoken by the Eskimo.
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.