English Explanatory Dictionary

Yukaghir

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a person with Yukaghir nationality
adj
  1. pertaining to the Yukaghir ethnic group of Siberia.
name
  1. A language family consisting of two closely related languages spoken in Siberia.

Word forms

Yukaghir Yukaghirs

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian юкагир (jukagir). The part yuka- may derive from Southern Yukaghir йуукэ (jūke, “far, distant”) or juk (“small”), if not from a word from some other language, because the most common endonyms used by Yukaghirs are Southern Yukaghir одул (odul) and Northern Yukaghir вадул (wadul). The suffix -ghir is likely from Evenki -гир (-gir), which is a very common ending in names of Evenki, Even and Orochon tribes.

Related words

Proto-Yukaghir
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