Yeniseian

Yeniseian
noun
1. a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia
• Hypernyms: ↑Russian
• Member Holonyms: ↑Siberia
2. the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian
• Syn: ↑Enets, ↑Entsi, ↑Entsy, ↑Yenisei, ↑Yenisei-Samoyed
• Hypernyms: ↑Samoyedic, ↑Samoyed

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\\-āən\ noun (-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Yenisei river, western Siberia + English -an
1. : a member of one of a group of peoples in the Yenisei river country including the Sagai — called also Yenisei-Ostyak
2. : a language family spoken in the valley of the Middle Yenisei river in Siberia of which Ket is the only member still spoken

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/yen'euh say"euhn/, n.
a group of languages spoken in Siberia, the only surviving member of which is Ket.
[YENISEI + -AN, trans. of Russ yeniséiskii]

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