Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A subfamily of the Uralic language family that includes Finnish, Hungarian, and other languages of eastern Europe and northwest Russia.
- adjective Of or relating to the Finns and the Ugrians.
- adjective Of or relating to Finno-Ugric.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Finno-Ugrian .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A group of
languages that, together withSamoyedic , make up theUralic family; they are spoken in a broad swathe fromSiberia toNorway . - adjective Of or relating to Finno-Ugric languages.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
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Examples
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Neo-Darwinism predicted that random mutations would pile up until the genes of mice and men were as different as, say, the Finno-Ugric and the English languages.
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The Merja people descend from an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe, are not part of the Slavic people who inhabit most of Eastern Europe, and originally hailed from a region in West-Central Russia, near the Volga.
E. Nina Rothe: Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls: Connecting Tenderness, Nostalgia and Love E. Nina Rothe 2011
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Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Neo-Darwinism predicted that random mutations would pile up until the genes of mice and men were as different as, say, the Finno-Ugric and the English languages.
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The Merja people descend from an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe, are not part of the Slavic people who inhabit most of Eastern Europe, and originally hailed from a region in West-Central Russia, near the Volga.
E. Nina Rothe: Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls: Connecting Tenderness, Nostalgia and Love E. Nina Rothe 2011
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The English equivalents of those exotic Finno-Ugric cases are mostly recreated through humble prepositions.
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The English equivalents of those exotic Finno-Ugric cases are mostly recreated through humble prepositions.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday.
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The Merja people descend from an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe, are not part of the Slavic people who inhabit most of Eastern Europe, and originally hailed from a region in West-Central Russia, near the Volga.
E. Nina Rothe: Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls: Connecting Tenderness, Nostalgia and Love E. Nina Rothe 2011
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Finno-Ugric fossilizes early IIr *médʰu- but fails to show any trace of *mélit-.
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