Definitions

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  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to the region of Samogitia, or its people.
  • noun A person from Samogitia or someone descended from such people.
  • proper noun A Baltic language spoken in Samogitia.

Etymologies

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From Samogitia +‎ -an.

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Examples

  • _There_ might have been seen a boor's wife dressed in sky blue lined with fox fur, and drawn to church in a comfortable kolaska, by two excellent, plump, Samogitian ponies; and neither did the father of the family exhaust his strength in night watches or day labor, as he had twenty teams to dispose of, and could offer to an unexpected visitor a broiled chicken with milk sauce, and a couple of bottles of brown stout from Barclay, Perkins & Co., of

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

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