angakok
or an·ge·kok
[ ang-guh-kok ]
noun
a shaman in Inuit society.
Origin of angakok
1First recorded in 1760–70; from Danish angekok (earlier angekkok ), from Inuit (Greenlandic, eastern Canada) angakkoq
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