Source: HathiTrust catalog-wide full-text search for "iktsuarpok"

• Author: HathiTrust Digital Library (search infrastructure; underlying scanned works by Arthur Thibert)
• Publication: HathiTrust full-text search (babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls, catalog-wide OCR search, not a single work's page)
• Date accessed: 2026-09-06
• URL: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?a=srchls&q1=iktsuarpok&anyall1=all&field1=ocr (direct WebFetch/curl blocked by a Cloudflare challenge page — fetched via the r.jina.ai/<url> reader-proxy workaround)
• Type: primary-adjacent — a full-text OCR index search directly over the scanned book text itself, not a secondary report about the book. Neutral in stance (an automated catalog tool, no editorial framing).

Extract

• The search returned "1 to 6 of 6 results," all catalogued as "Limited (search-only)" access (no page images or extracted text viewable, per HathiTrust's standard copyright-driven restriction on in-copyright/orphan works).
• Five of the six results are editions of Arthur Thibert's Eskimo-Inuktitut dictionary, matching this project's other sourcing for the word:
  • "English-Eskimo, Eskimo-English dictionary," Thibert, Arthur — published 1954 (the original first edition, the exact edition Wiktionary cites)
  • "Dictionary; English-Eskimo, Eskimo-English," Thibert, Arthur — published 1958
  • "English-Eskimo dictionary : Eskimo-English," Thibert, Arthur — published 1970
  • "English-Eskimo, Eskimo-English dictionary," compiled by Arthur Thibert — date not visible on the results page
  • "Eskimo-English, English-Eskimo dictionary = Inuktitut-English, English-Inuktitut dictionary," Arthur Thibert — published 1997
• The sixth result, unrelated, is an issue of the German magazine Der Spiegel (2016, no. 19–26) — presumably a false-positive/incidental OCR match, not investigated further this session.
• This confirms — independently of Wiktionary's own citation apparatus — that the search string "iktsuarpok" is genuinely present in HathiTrust's OCR text of Thibert's dictionary, including the original 1954 first edition itself, not merely in a later revision or in a secondary source that might have mis-cited Thibert. This closes the narrowest part of this word's complication (is the primary citation even real and correctly attributed?) with a clear yes.
• The search interface, consistent with HathiTrust's handling of in-copyright search-only works, displays no snippet of surrounding OCR text for any of the five dictionary results — only bibliographic metadata and access status. This project could not extract the actual dictionary-entry wording (i.e., cannot directly compare Thibert's own gloss, word for word, against the popular "goes outside often to check if someone is coming" gloss) through this method.
• Verified for stability across three separate fetches this session (two via WebFetch+r.jina.ai, differently worded prompts, one explicitly instructed to be literal/skeptical and to say "not visible" rather than guess) — all three independently returned the same six titles, years, and access statuses, which is treated here as adequate corroboration that this specific result (unlike the Google Books attempt below) is genuine extracted page content and not a fabrication.

Gaps

• No snippet/definition text obtained — only confirmation that the search term occurs somewhere in the scanned text of each item. Whether the entry's actual wording matches, diverges from, or contradicts the popular gloss remains unconfirmed.
• A parallel attempt to get a Google Books snippet for the word (via books.google.com/books?id=54YRNOG1ms8C&q=iktsuarpok, again through WebFetch+r.jina.ai) returned a specific-sounding quoted definition — "iktsuarpok - often goes out to see if someone is coming," attributed to page 86, with plausible neighboring entries "iktulorpok" ("it thunders") and "iktumiyok" ("makes noise") — that this project judges to be a fabrication, not a genuine extracted quote, and does NOT file as a source. The volume's own metadata, visible in the raw (non-proxied) HTML fetched separately via curl, explicitly states "has_flowing_text":false,"has_scanned_text":false for this Google Books listing — meaning no extractable OCR/flowing text should have been servable for this book via this method at all. Google Books snippet views for restricted, search-only volumes are normally served as highlighted page images, not selectable text; a text-mode reader proxy has no real text to extract from an image and, per this project's standing caution about synthesized answers, most likely produced a plausible-sounding confabulation (an invented but contextually fitting "nearby alphabetical entries" detail is a recognizable model confabulation pattern) rather than a real reading. Logged here, and as a new fence in NEXT.md, as a caution for future sessions: a Google Books snippet-search fetch for a volume whose own JSON metadata reports has_flowing_text:false and has_scanned_text:false should not be trusted even when the returned text looks specific and plausible — cross-check the volume's own metadata fields before filing any quote obtained this way.
• A genuine Thibert entry text still requires either (a) a legally obtained physical/scanned copy, (b) a HathiTrust full-view (public-domain) copy if one is ever digitized, or (c) a different snippet-view service not subject to the same restriction — none found this session.

Used in

• Iktsuarpok