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Lappish
[ lap-ish ]
adjective
- Also Lap·pic [] of, relating to, or characteristic of Lapland or the Sami.
ˈLappish
/ ˈlæpɪʃ /
adjective
- of or relating to the Lapps, a nomadic people living chiefly in N Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula of Russia, or their language
noun
- the language of this people, belonging to the Finno-Ugric family
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Sensitive Note
See Lapp.
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Example Sentences
The Russian Lapp indeed has few true and Lappish attributes.
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I fancy we had, on the whole, a good educational effect upon our Lappish carriers.
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I have compared this with the Lappish name for seal, ‘dævok’—‘davak’—‘dævkka.’
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But that they once had names of their own is shown by the genuine Lappish names for some of the larger islands.
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Lappish words to make the dogs quicken their pace or to halt.
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