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Word: Angakok
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 18th century. Originally from (i) Danish Angekok, †Angekkok and its etymon (ii) Greenlandic Inuit angákok (now angakkoq)
Definition:
Among the Inuit of Greenland and parts of Alaska and northern Canada: a man or (less commonly) woman believed to have powers of divination and healing through access to and influence in the world of good and evil spirits; a shaman.
Variant Forms:
- angekok
- angakut
- angakuit
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