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Sam⋅o⋅yed

  [sam-uh-yed, suh-moi-id]
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–noun
1. a member of a Uralic people dwelling in W Siberia and the far NE parts of European Russia.
2. Also, Samoyedic. a subfamily of Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed people.
3. (sometimes lowercase) one of a Russian breed of medium-sized dogs that have long, dense, white or cream hair and are used by the Samoyed people for herding reindeer and pulling sleds.
Origin:
1580–90; < Russ samoyéd
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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.]
Sam·o·yed also Sam·o·yede   (sām'ə-yěd', -oi-ěd', sə-moi'ĭd)   
n.  
  1. See Nenets.
  2. Any of a breed of medium-sized dog originally developed in northern Eurasia, having a thick, long, white or cream-colored coat.

[Obsolete Russian samoyed (samo-, self; see samovar + -ed, eater; see ed- in Indo-European roots), by folk etymology from Lapp sāmḿ emḿne, land of the Sami.]
Sam'o·yed' adj., Sam'o·yed'ic adj.
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Samoyed 
Siberian Mongolian people, 1589, from Rus. samoyed, lit. "self-eaters, cannibals" (the first element cognate with Eng. same, the second with O.E. etan "to eat"). The native name is Nenets. As the name of a type of dog (once used as a working dog in the Arctic) it is attested from 1889.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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