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