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Samoyed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /səˈmɔɪ.ɛd/
  • /ˈsæməjɛd/

Etymology

From Russian самое́д (samojéd), probably from Sami *saam-edne (“land of the people”); compare Finnish Suomi (“Finn”). In the course of borrowing, the word was folk-etymologically reinterpreted as сам (sam, “self, own”) + есть, ед- (jestʹ, jed-, “eat”), "self-eater."

Meanings

  1. Of or pertaining to this people.
    • some Samoyed musicians performed pieces of similar cacophony on an assortment of instruments - hand drums and finger cymbals and pipes resembling our fagotto and dulzaina. 1984, Gary Jennings, The Journeyer, page 378:

Forms

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Samojed alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

Samoyedologist · Samusky

Translations (30)

pl Samojedka (dog) · cmn 薩摩耶犬 /萨摩耶犬 (dog) · ja サモエード人 (person) · ja サモイェード (person) · ja サモエド犬 (dog) · es samoyedo (person) · ru самоди́ец (person) · es samoyedo (dog) · fr samoyède (dog) · ca samoieda (person) · cmn 薩摩耶 /萨摩耶 (dog) · cs samojed (dog) · cmn 薩摩耶人 /萨摩耶人 (person) · cs Samojed (person) · fr Samoyède (person) · pl Samojed (dog) · fi samojedi (dog) · fi samojedi (person) · ru самое́дская соба́ка (dog) · ca samoiede (person) · pl samojed (person) · cmn 薩莫耶德人 /萨莫耶德人 (person) · fi samojedinkoira (dog) · ca samoiede (dog) · mk самојед (dog) · ru самое́д (person) · ms anjing Samoyed (dog) · ru не́нец (person) · ru самое́д (dog) · ru самое́дская ла́йка (dog)

Samoyed en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /səˈmɔɪ.ɛd/
  • /ˈsæməjɛd/

Etymology

From Russian самое́д (samojéd), probably from Sami *saam-edne (“land of the people”); compare Finnish Suomi (“Finn”). In the course of borrowing, the word was folk-etymologically reinterpreted as сам (sam, “self, own”) + есть, ед- (jestʹ, jed-, “eat”), "self-eater."

Meanings

  1. A member of the Samoyedic peoples of the Siberian Urals, who speak Samoyedic languages.
    • The Samoyeds are Idolaters and Witches, obſeruing diuelliſh ſuperſtitions 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of other Northerne people adioyning to the Tartars.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 363:
  2. A hardy breed of dog from Siberia.

Forms

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Samoyeds Number=Plur lexicographic
Samoyed Number=Plur lexicographic
Samojed alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

Sammie · Smiley · Sammy