Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yeniseian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
yeni-seian
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A family of languages spoken in central Siberia.

name

Proto-Yeniseian: the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family.

noun

A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Yeniseian.

adj

Of or relating to the languages comprising the Yeniseian language family, or their speakers.

adj

Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family.

Etymology

From Yenisei + -an.

Inflected Forms

Yenisseian (alternative) Yeniseians (plural)

Synonyms

Yeniseic Yenisei-Ostyak enets entsi entsy yenisei yenisei-samoyed entsi language yenisei-samoyed language yenisei language enets language entsy language

Questions

What does yeniseian mean?
A family of languages spoken in central Siberia.
Where does yeniseian come from?
From Yenisei + -an.

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