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cheremisses

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Cher⋅e⋅mis

  [cher-uh-mis, -mees, cher-uh-mis, -mees]
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–noun, plural -mis⋅es, (especially collectively) -mis.
Mari.
Also, Cher⋅e⋅miss.

Origin:
< Russ cheremís, earlier cheremísin, ORuss (pl.) chermisy, prob. < Chuvash śarmîs, śarmîś Mari

Ma⋅ri

  [mah-ree]
–noun, plural -ris, (especially collectively) -ri for 1.
1. a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
2. the Finnic language of the Mari.
Also called Cheremis, Cheremiss.

Origin:
< Russ mári (not declined) < Mari marij Mari, man
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