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  • adjective From, of, or pertaining to, Mordvinia (Mordovia)
  • noun Someone from Mordvinia (Mordovia).

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Examples

  • There were five poems: Russian, Checheno-Ingushetian 2, Mordvinian, and Georgian, translated, presumably from the Russian, by leading poet Marie Under, who later fled to Sweden.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Eric Dickens 2009

  • Different tribes of Volga like Mari, Mordvinian, Udmut and Chuvas accepted Islam during this time.

    Archive 2001-01-01 Lionheart 2001

  • Different tribes of Volga like Mari, Mordvinian, Udmut and Chuvas accepted Islam during this time.

    Archive 2001-01-01 Lionheart 2001

  • Different tribes of Volga like Mari, Mordvinian, Udmut and Chuvas accepted Islam during this time.

    Islam's War to Save the World Lionheart 2001

  • Different tribes of Volga like Mari, Mordvinian, Udmut and Chuvas accepted Islam during this time.

    Islam's War to Save the World Lionheart 2001

  • Mordvinian, swarthy and gray-eyed, walked beside us, casting glances of inquiry at us, as the shaggy little horse plunged along, to ascertain our degrees of satisfaction with the experiment.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • The armed Russian and Mordvinian foresters, our guides and protectors, were in the vanguard; and as Misha seemed peaceably disposed we relinquished all designs on his pelt, consoling ourselves with the reflection that it would not be good at this season of the year.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • The Mordvinian contributed to the entertainment by telling us of his people's costumes and habits, and gave us a lesson in his language, which was of the Tatar-Finnish variety.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • The morals of the Mordvinian gods are as lax as those of Mordvinian mortals.

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

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