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Nen⋅ets

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–noun, plural Nen⋅tsi, Nen⋅tsy  [nent-see] , (especially collectively) Nen⋅ets.
1. a member of a reindeer-herding Uralic people of far northern European Russia and adjacent areas of Siberia as far as the Yenisei River delta.
2. the Samoyedic language of the Nenets.
Also called Yurak.

Origin:
< Russ nénets (with -ets falsely construed as the Russ suffix) < Nenets ńēnetś man, Nenets
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Nen·ets   (něn'ěts)   
n.   pl. Nenets In both senses also called Samoyed.

  1. A member of a reindeer-herding people of of extreme northwest Russia along the coast of the White, Barents, and Kara seas.

  2. The Uralic language of this people.


[Nenets, human being, Nenets.]
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