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Mord⋅vin

  [mawrd-vin]
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–noun
1. a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities in the middle Volga basin, esp. between Nizhni Novgorod and Saratov.
2. the Finnic language of the Mordvin, with two major dialects, sometimes considered distinct languages.
Also, Mord⋅vin⋅i⋅an  [mawrd-vin-ee-uhn] .

Origin:
< Russ mordvín, deriv. of the collective n. mordvá, of uncert. orig.
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mordvin

noun
1. a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia [syn: Mordva] 
2. the Finnic language spoken by the Mordvinians [syn: Mordva] 
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