Ket

[ ket ]

noun,plural Kets, (especially collectively) Ket for 1.
  1. a member of an Indigenous people of central Siberia, living in widely dispersed communities on tributaries of the Yenisei River, between 60° and 67° N latitude.

  2. the Yeniseian language of the Ket, related only to several now extinct languages of the upper Yenisei.

Origin of Ket

1
From Russian, from Ket: Ket, “man, human being”

Other definitions for ket- (2 of 2)

ket-

  1. variant of keto- before a vowel: ketene.

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