Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a group of Finno-Ugric peoples of western Siberia and Hungary, including the Magyars.
- noun Ugric.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting the Finno-Hungarian group of languages, comprising the tongues of the Lapps, Finns, and Magyars or Hungarians. It is a branch of the Ural-Altaic family.
- Pertaining to that group of peoples which includes the Voguls, Ostiaks, and Magyars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Ethnol.) A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of the race of
ancestors of the presentHungarians .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Magyar traditional five tone pentatonic scale echoes their Oriental and Finno-Ugrian nomadic beginnings, indeed the Magyar language is linguistically very close to Japanese.
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The Magyar traditional five tone pentatonic scale echoes their Oriental and Finno-Ugrian nomadic beginnings, indeed the Magyar language is linguistically very close to Japanese.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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Mongolian, the Turkish and the Finnish – Ugrian races, to belong to the so-called Altaic or Ural – Altaic stem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Hungarians were themselves nomads of the Finno-Ugrian family.
e. Hungary 2001
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Ugrian or Finnish cast of features occasionally asserts itself in the central Balkans.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Both of these come from the Ugrian stock of _Agglutinative_ languages, and therefore they always stick to the roots of the word and make grammatical changes by suffixes.
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Among the tribes of the Finnish-Ugrian stock in Europe the heathen worship was performed for the most part in sacred groves, which were always enclosed with a fence.
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Among the tribes of the Finnish-Ugrian stock in Europe the heathen worship was performed for the most part in sacred groves, which were always enclosed with a fence.
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Turkish origin of the Magyars, while Pál Hunfalvy and his followers place them in the Finno-Ugrian division of languages of a Ural-Altaic stem and look for the original home of the race in the region of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Slavs meanwhile absorbing the Finnic-Ugrian Bulgars.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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