Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Samoyeds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Any of a group of
languages spoken in theUrals that, along withFinno-Ugric , make up theUralic language group. - adjective Of or pertaining to these languages.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
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Examples
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Of course, these nomadic peoples dont even all speak Russian! they have their own native tongues and now even the Russian peoples call them by their different tribes, rather than "Samoyedic", but the dog name stuck!!
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:) Here you go: apparently, "Samoyed" as a dog name came up b / c the various nomadic & reindeer herding peoples of Russia were / are 'Samoyedic' peoples and they were the "samoyed dogs".
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:) Here you go: apparently, "Samoyed" as a dog name came up b / c the various nomadic & reindeer herding peoples of Russia were / are 'Samoyedic' peoples and they were the "samoyed dogs".
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For those who buy into Nostratic or Indo-Uralic there's a possible cognate in Uralic, *t, which is used to form participles and infinitives in Finnic, Saami, Ob-Ugrian, and Samoyedic.
The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model 2009
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Note that Juha Janhunen would reconstruct these a little differently based on his intriguing comparisons with Samoyedic and quite frankly I prefer his system.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Note that Juha Janhunen would reconstruct these a little differently based on his intriguing comparisons with Samoyedic and quite frankly I prefer his system.
Proto-Uralic flora 2007
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*ŋ is indeed indirectly deduced here, as aside from *ŋk it is directly supported only by Ugric and Samoyedic data AFAIK.
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