Samoyedic

[ sam-uh-yed-ik ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the Samoyed people or languages.

noun

1. Samoyed ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of Samoyedic¹

First recorded in 1805–15; Samoyed + -ic

Example Sentences

The following year saw him raised to the rank of chancellor of the university; and he was busily engaged in what he regarded as his principal work, a Samoyedic grammar, when he died on the 7th of May 1853.

From Project Gutenberg

These four classes, together with the Samoyedic, constitute the northern or Ural-Altaic division of the Turanian family.

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It seems to me that we can only expect to find in them such coincidences as Castrén and Schott have succeeded in discovering in the Finnic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Samoyedic languages; and such as Hodgson, Caldwell, Logan, and myself have pointed out in the Tamulic, Gangetic, Lohitic, Taïc, and Malaïc languages.

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The dialects of these Siberian Turks are considerably intermingled with foreign words, taken from Mongolic, Samoyedic, or Russian sources.

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The third group of languages, for we can hardly call it a family, comprises most of the remaining languages of Asia, and counts among its principal members the Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic, Samoyedic, and Finnic, together with the languages of Siam, the Malay islands, Tibet, and Southern India.

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