angakok

noun

an·​ga·​kok

variants or less commonly angekok

ˈaŋgəˌkäk

plural angakoks also angekoks

-ˌkäks

: an Eskimo medicine man or shaman

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Inuit (Greenlandic and Eastern Canadian) aŋakkuk

First Known Use

1767, in the meaning defined above

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