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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Yeniseian.
2. 2
   the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian wordnet
3. 3
   a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia wordnet

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or relating to the languages comprising the Yeniseian language family, or their speakers. not-comparable
2. 2
   Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family. not-comparable

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A family of languages spoken in central Siberia.
2. 2
   Proto-Yeniseian: the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family.

Synonyms

All synonyms

enetsenetsenets languageentsientsi languageentsy

Etymology

From Yenisei + -an.

Related phrases

proto yeniseian

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.