Yukaghir
adj, name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 a person with Yukaghir nationality
Adjective
- 1 pertaining to the Yukaghir ethnic group of Siberia. not-comparable
Proper Noun
- 1 A language family consisting of two closely related languages spoken in Siberia.
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Borrowed from Russian юкагир (jukagir). The part yuka- may derive from Southern Yukaghir йуукэ (jūke, “far, distant”) or juk (“small”), if not from a word from some other language, because the most common endonyms used by Yukaghirs are Southern Yukaghir одул (odul) and Northern Yukaghir вадул (wadul). The suffix -ghir is likely from Evenki -гир (-gir), which is a very common ending in names of Evenki, Even and Orochon tribes.
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