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Sentence Examples My list is somewhat more reliable than that unchecked serial exaggeration of Eskimo snow vocabulary you hear so much about. While Aleut is considered a separate language, Eskimo branches into Inuit and Yup'ik. Obviation is found in some American Indian languages including Algonquian, Apachean, Eskimo, Keresan, and Kutenai. The infamous Eskimo snow words meme is spread by people who don't know about Inuit or any related language. There is the possibility of flipping over with you harnessed inside, but that's what lessons and Eskimo rolls are for. Righting himself with an Eskimo roll, the 46-year-old real estate appraiser came up dripping and smiling. The Greenlandic language is closely related to Labrador Eskimo but has taken many of its card-playing terms from Danish. In my endless pursuit of funny stories about Eskimo words for snow, I've found friends who will send me absurd comics about it, too. When people try to make a list with snow words in Eskimo, they often include words for ice. A generation ago, by far and away the most common cause of death among Eskimo men was drowning. What was intended to be a six-week project turned into a six-month study of Eskimo archaeology and anthropology. My background is Inupiaq Eskimo, which is the northern most tribe of Inuits in Alaska. Sea ice normally protects Eskimo villages from the ravages of winter storms. Considering that Eskimo languages are polysynthetic it is difficult to compare them to English. Nearly every section of the world suffered, the United States, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and even remote Eskimo villages. The whole Eskimo family is only about two thousand years old. Fly east from the Inupiat Eskimo village of Kaktovik, Alaska, and over the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and you'll find caribou. Running on strongly, the 12-1 chance had a length and a half to spare over front-running One Trick Pony, who held on to second by a short-head from Eskimo Nell. The truth about snow words in the Eskimo languages simply doesn't matter. All of these were transcribed in the original language of the Eskimo storytellers and then translated with the help of Eskimos who also spoke English. Show More Sentences Speaking on the intake of breath is something that I think is only common in Ireland, though I have been told that it does exist in Eskimo speech too. Among the Polar Eskimo of the Thule District, for example, the dog sled was the most important means of transportation, used up to ten months of the year. The stem tik means finger in Amerind, one in Sino-Tibetan, 'index finger' in Eskimo and 'middle finger' in Aleut. That is to say, missionaries trained in the lower 48 states came up to Alaska to establish and serve churches among the Eskimo and Athabaskan peoples. Voisey sisters showing intricate designs of Eskimo parka decorations, Repulse Bay, Northwest Territories. Therefore, the Eskimo curlew is not likely to occur in the 1 km wide Preferred Corridor. Many Eskimo have abandoned nomadic hunting and now live in northern towns and cities, often working in mines and oil fields. Eskimo children show little respect for their elders in the manner to which we are accustomed. He was travelling along the coast with an Eskimo from Bathurst Inlet when the native met his aged mother, whom he had not seen for many years. Stefánsson stayed among them until 1912 and published the book My Life with the Eskimo the following year. Historians of Eskimo culture describe museum collections that reveal the inner values of ancient arctic traditions. Locals bring the raw stone to the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op, where it is weighed, and its value determined. At the present rate of increase the Eskimo population will double within twenty years. But three-quarters of the Eskimo population live in the harsh land outside the main centres of economic and government activity. The first documentary feature was Robert J Flaherty's Nanook of the North, a groundbreaking picture in its neo-realism, depicting the daily routine of an Eskimo family. The stereotypical Eskimo wears a fur parka and lives in an igloo. Some schools teach the Eskimo roll as part of basic training. We wait for the two to just Eskimo kiss in the corner underneath the mistletoe already. Dual number is found in Eskimo and in the Athabascan, Siouan, Iroquoian, Muskogean, and Plateau Shoshoni groups in North America, and Araucanian and others in South America. It was a Spanish rendering of the Eskimo word kayak and apparently referred to the bidarkas of the Aleuts who were employed in hunting sea otter along the California coast. Show More Sentences Jon will wrap himself in four separate Eskimo parkas, the sheet and two quilts and still lie in bed shivering, wondering why his wife is slowly trying to kill him. The pure-bred Eskimo would at first glance seem to most of us Europeans anything but beautiful. The Holman Eskimo Co-operative has begun construction of a 4,096 square foot, eight room hotel that will also include a 49 seat restaurant and gift shop. A fairly complete skeleton from the Magdalenian found in 1888 in Chancelade, France, was originally thought to have been an Eskimo. Each mother carried a nosegay of Eskimo roses and bridal white wax flowers in a silver Victorian tussie-mussie. I half-expected to see an Eskimo in a huskie-driven sled whiz by. In an effort to keep parties fresh, exciting, and memorable, Paper Eskimo has changed the party game. Canberrans were treated to a free Eskimo Joe concert and fireworks. Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions. Several sites along the west coast of the Great Northern Peninsula, have produced 900 year old artifacts from the Dorset Eskimo culture, and are within a short distance of the Main River Watershed. The Eskimo dialects are Inupiaq, Yupik, Siberian Yupik, Jupik, Cupik, and Central Yupik. In an Eskimo community in Canada, one women's representative took part in an orientation visit by the all-male council to a water and sanitation project in a neighbouring area. The Clipsal is renown for its huge after-race concerts, which have drawn top Australian artists such as Eskimo Joe, British India, Noiseworks and Mental as Anything. Eskimo life maintains all the qualities of the Eskimo puff pastry margarine, with perfect results in puff pastry and Danish pastry applications, for fresh products or deep frozen processed products. Eskimo living in north Quebec eat up to 16g of fish oil daily, and up until now, no adverse side effect has been observed from this level of consumption. It's everything he dreamt of, with its smooth dressing, smoother talking men and women who can sell ice to an Eskimo, dreams to an insomniac, and a lifetime mobile connection to a dying man. This lamp was the most important article of furniture for the Inuit, Yupik and other Eskimo peoples. The walrus army appeared on a beach on a barrier island near Point Lay, an Inupiat Eskimo village on Alaska's northwest coast last week. Societies with the Eskimo kinship system, like the Inuit, Yupik, and most Western societies, are typically bilateral. Tens of thousands were expected at the main celebrations in Canberra's city centre, where the Perth rock band Eskimo Joe joined local acts for a free concert. Show More Sentences Did you see that instructor do an Eskimo roll in this freezing water? They think in terms of Eskimo without realizing the diversity of Yup'ik and Inupiaq cultures or that there's a very large and diverse Athabascan culture in Interior Alaska. The Malagasy language has seven degrees of distance combined with two degrees of visibility, while Eskimo languages have even more complex systems. Most other languages do not have a special mood for asking questions, but exceptions include Welsh, Nenets and Eskimo languages such as Greenlandic. Taking it for granted that Greenlandish may be held to represent the Eskimo tongue in general, we shall endeavour to give an idea of its remarkable construction. He ate like a starving Eskimo.... The growing boy evidently did not believe in table-talk when he could use his mouth for more practical purposes. Examples from Classical Literature It would seem that the characteristic traits of shamanism are common to all the Eskimo tribes. The sufferer used one or two more Eskimo expressions, suggestive of excruciating agony, which are not translatable into English. Again, it is safe, in the way of intellectual capacity, to give the Eskimo credit for ingenuity and imitativeness. We cannot, of course, convey the slightest idea of the infantine Eskimo lisp. Now the woman Olillie had been bred from an Eskimo mother by an Innuit man. The tractive force was, of course, the Eskimo dogs, and sledges were the means of transportation. My first boma was a meshwork of thorns piled and interwoven together with the architectural simplicity of an Eskimo igloo. An Eskimo even thinks it an indignity to row in an umiak, the large boat used by women. The Eskimo curlew is decreasing to the danger point, and the yellowlegs is following. Indeed, as has been already stated, the Eskimo and Athabaskan stretch across the Continent. The pure-bred Eskimo generally marries as soon as he can provide for a wife. He could wait for what he wished as the Eskimo sits for days at the air hole until the seal appears. Eskimo characteristics appear in the Athabaskan, Athabaskan in the Koluch forms of speech. The only domestic animal possessed by either Eskimo or Amerindian was the dog. I have yet to see the Eskimo who is like a bunch of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. The Eskimo are clearly not successes in a cubistic or saltatorial line, as I have had ample opportunities to observe. But the Eskimo was much too experienced a hunter and warrior to allow the drowsy god to enchain him long. In traveling in the spring the Eskimo always use snow goggles to protect themselves from snow blindness. They bought of the Eskimo what furs they wanted and paid as little for them as possible. The Eskimo, who seemed to act as cook, occasionally looked into the camp-kettle. Show More Sentences Everything but the provisions for the Eskimo crew was already aboard. And the Kolooch languages are equally Eskimo with the athabascan. The malemute and Kaviak dress is similar to that of the northern Eskimo. To his fish and flesh the Eskimo adds a bewildering plenitude of wildfowl. In regard to food, neither Amerindian nor Eskimo was squeamish. Fifty miles inland the Indian and Eskimo hunters had met them. The Eskimo religion, like that of the Indian, is one of fear. In a small hut upon the beach lived the Eskimo woman and her boy. Every bit of Eskimo skin-clothing is as soft and pliable as a kid glove. The Eskimo dog seldom barks, but he has a mournful, wolflike howl. Remarks on the physiography, Eskimo, and mammals of Southampton Island. The difference between you and the Eskimo who makes a fur-clad blubber-eating god is merely a difference of several thousand years of ascertained facts. Find more words! 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