lappish – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Lappish
adj.
of or pertaining to Lapland; of or pertaining to the people of Lapland
n.
any of the languages spoken by the Lapps, Lapp
Sami languages
Sami is a group of
Uralic languages spoken by the
Sami people in
Northern Europe (in parts of northern
Finland,
Norway,
Sweden and extreme northwestern
Russia). There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages or dialects. Several names are used for the Sami languages:
Saami,
Sámi,
Saame,
Samic,
Saamic, as well as the
exonyms Lappish and
Lappic. The last two, along with the term
Lapp, are now often considered
derogatory (
Lapp in Swedish means
patch or
rag).
Lappish
Noun
1. any of the languages spoken by the Lapp people and generally assumed to be Uralic languages
(synonym) Lappic
(hypernym) Uralic, Uralic language
(hyponym) Lapp, Sami
Lappish
(n.)
The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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