English Explanatory Dictionary

Khanty

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. related to Khanty people or their language
noun
  1. A member of an indigenous ethnic group living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
name
  1. The Ob-Ugric language spoken by these people, now more often considered a group of closely related languages.

Word forms

Khanty

Etymology

From Northern Khanty хӑнты (hănty, “Khanty person; Khanty (adj.)”), Southern Khanty хӑнтӛ (hăntjə, “Khanty person; man”), Eastern Khanty кӑнтӛг яг (kăntjəg jag, “Khanty people”), presumably from Proto-Uralic *kunta (“clan, kin, community”).

Synonyms

Ostyak
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