Re: Diving In...

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> In the polysynthetic language I have some familiarity with - the
Iqaluit
> dialect of Inuktitut (the so-called "Eskimo" language, "Eskimo" is
> pejorative)
Doesn't it come from a word meaning "fish-eater"? Still pejorative,
that I can
understand.

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No, a tribal name, apparently:

[French Esquimaux, possibly from Spanish esquimao, esquimal, from
Montagnais ayashkimew, Micmac.]

Imperative