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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Finland or the Finns.
- noun A branch of Finno-Ugric that includes Finnish and Estonian.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to the Finns as a race, or to the group of languages spoken by them; Finnish, in the most general sense: as, the Magyars are a Finnic people.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Finns.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A subset of the family of
Finno-Ugric languages that includesFinnish ,Estonian ,Sami (Lapp ),Mordvin ,Udmurt ,Komi andMari . - adjective Of or pertaining to Finnic languages.
- adjective rare
Finnish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian)
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Examples
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For those who buy into Nostratic or Indo-Uralic there's a possible cognate in Uralic, *t, which is used to form participles and infinitives in Finnic, Saami, Ob-Ugrian, and Samoyedic.
The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model 2009
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Scholars have therefore seen gradation in Balto-Finnic and Lapp as the result of parallel, but separate development to the gradation in Samoyed. see link.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Scholars have therefore seen gradation in Balto-Finnic and Lapp as the result of parallel, but separate development to the gradation in Samoyed. see link.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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The ancient meaning of "ale" can be corroborated by the Baltic "alus" and Finnic "olut", both meaning simply "beer", both still apparently retaining a reflex of the lost *-θ.
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The interesting part begins when I found out that according to the current understanding 1, a coda laryngeal was regenerated in derivativs after its initial decay into Finnic vowel length, and it has, as far as I can tell, the same outcomes as coda *ŋ.
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I once met a HS teacher whose married name was ~15 letters long and not from any language I could recognize Indo-E, Finnic, Turkic, Semitic, E-Asian.
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Still he regards the Magyar and Finnic languages as having greater mutual affinities than the others, though not to such a degree that one of these races of men can be supposed to be derived from the other.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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Turanians on the North and East, to the Tungusic, Mongolic, Tartaric, and Finnic tribes.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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Slavs was greater on the right bank of the Danube, where they overwhelmed the Thraco-Roman population by weight of numbers, and denationalized the Finnic Bulgars who settled in the country in the seventh century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Eastern soil, flanked on all sides by the most widely dissimilar peoples — Orientals, Finnic-Ugrians and Slavs — some of them dangerous neighbours just beyond the border, others settled on
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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