Proto-Inupik: *tạụ
Meaning: human being (shaman's language)
Russian meaning: человек (шаманское)
SPI Dialects: W tuaq* (tuāk, tuāt) 'man, person'
WCI Dialects: Cor tau* 'man, person', Cop tauq [Ras.]
ECI Dialects: Igl tau [Ras.], Iti tau (arch.) [Dor.], Igl taujaq 'white man' [Ras.]
GRI Dialects: EG tāq 'man', WG taušaq 'man (shaman's word)' [Egede], EG [Ras.] tāq 'person whose name has left him after death', cf. EG tāʁtaq 'helping spirit'
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 333, 334
