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Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. vol. 1/2

Note 166 — SECTION V. ANTHROPOLOGY.

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Innuit (Eskimo), like Illinois (from Illeni), means simply “a man”—a frequent tribal designation amongst savages. So Teuton and Deutsch, with the numberless derivations, are derived from Goth. Thiud, a people; Alemanni from “All-men,” and “German perhaps from Guerre-man” (Farrar, Families of Speech).

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