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Yakut
[ yuh-koot ]
noun
, plural Ya·kuts, (especially collectively) Ya·kut
- a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River Valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
- the Turkic language of the Yakut.
adjective
- of or relating to the Yakut or their language.
Yakut
/ jæˈkʊt /
noun
- -kuts-kut a native or inhabitant of the Sakha Republic, in Russia
- the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Yakut1
First recorded in 1760–70; from Russian yakút, from Turkic saxa “edge, collar”
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Example Sentences
The Yakut dress is made in the same way, but usually of horse or cow hide.
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The flour magazines are large, and well supplied by Yakut convoys, which constantly arrive and discharge their loads there.
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In the next century the Arabian geographer, Yakut, describes it as deserted.
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Few even of the most artful Russians are able to deceive a Yakut of the woods.
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There was deep silence in the room,—a rather unusual thing in a place where several Yakut people are together.
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