Amerindian vs Esquimau

Esquimau vs Amerindian

Amerindian and Esquimau both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Amerindian	Yes	No	No	No
Esquimau	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Esquimau is a hyponym of Amerindian; that is, Esquimau is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Amerindian:

Amerindian: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Esquimau: a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')

Other hyponyms of Amerindian include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquois, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Penutian, Pueblo, Injun, red man, Redskin, Salish, Shoshone, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Wakashan, South American Indian, Carib, Carib Indian, Aleut, Aleutian, Arawak, Arawakan, Eskimo, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Amerindian (noun)	Esquimau (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	the language spoken by the Eskimo
	a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')

Difference between Amerindian and Esquimau

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