Origin of the name Eskimo
- Origin of the name Eskimo
Two principal competing etymologies have been proposed for the name "Eskimo", but the most commonly accepted today appears to be the Montagnais word meaning "snowshoe-netter". The word "assime·w" means "she laces a snowshoe" in Montagnais. Since Montagnais speakers refer to the neighbouring Mi'kmaq people using words that sound very much like "eskimo", Ives Goddard of the Smithsonian Institution has concluded that this is the more likely origin of the word.[Goddard, Ives (1984). "Synonymy." In "Arctic", ed. David Damas. Vol. 5 of "Handbook of North American Indians", ed. William C. Sturtevant, pp. 5-7. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. Cited in Campbell 1997] ][Campbell, Lyle (1997). "American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America", pg. 394. New York: Oxford University Press] ]Jose Mailhot, a Quebec anthropologist who speaks Montagnais, however, published a paper in 1978 which suggested that the meaning is "people who speak a different language".[Mailhot, J. (1978). "L'étymologie de «Esquimau» revue et corrigée." "Etudes Inuit/Inuit Studies" 2-2:59-70.] ]Folklore has it that some Algonquian languages called Eskimos by names that mean "eaters of raw meat". Linguistic research by anthropologists does not support that etymology, but regardless it is commonly felt in Canada and Greenland that the term "Eskimo" is pejorative.[Kaplan, Lawrence. (2002). [http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/inuitoreskimo.html "Inuit or Eskimo: Which names to use?"] . Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Retrieved on 2007-04-06.] ][ [http://books.google.com/books?id=3UHTsUmt1PEC&dq=isbn:0810850583 Historical Dictionary of the Inuit By Pamela R. Stern] ] ][ [http://www.bartleby.com/61/24/E0212400.html The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition] ] ][ [http://wikitravel.org/en/Greenland wikitravel = Greenland] ] ][ [http://www.ostgroenland-hilfe.de/en/projekt.html Ostgroenland-Hilfe Project] ] ]References
External links
* [http://linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-300.html The Linguist Mailing List, Sum: Ethnocentrism]
* [http://www.nisto.com/cree/mail/cree-1997-11.txt Cree Mailing List Digest, November 1997]
* [http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxeskimo.html Origin of the word "Eskimo"]
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