angakok

or an·ge·kok

[ ang-guh-kok ]

noun
  1. a shaman in Inuit society.

Origin of angakok

1
First recorded in 1760–70; from Danish angekok (earlier angekkok ), from Inuit (Greenlandic, eastern Canada) angakkoq

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