Definitions for Samoyed

Samoyed Sam·o·yed

Spelling: [sam-uh-yed, suh-moi-id]
IPA: /ˌsæm əˈyɛd, səˈmɔɪ ɪd/

Samoyed is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in Samoyed (ademosy).

Definitions for Samoyed

noun

  1. a member of a Uralic people dwelling in W Siberia and the far NE parts of European Russia.
  2. Also, Samoyedic. a subfamily of Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed people.
  3. (sometimes lowercase) one of a Russian breed of medium-sized dogs that have long, dense, white or cream hair and are used by the Samoyed people for herding reindeer and pulling sleds.

Origin of Samoyed

First recorded in 1580-90, Samoyed is from the Russian word samoyéd

Examples for Samoyed

Mr. Serebrenikoff writes Samodin instead of Samoyed, considering the latter name incorrect.

To the Samoyed, for instance, the reindeer which serves him as unit of value is wealth in the most concrete and tangible form.

The Samoyed tent is commonly covered with reindeer skins, the Ostyak tent with birch bark.

Now the bow appears to have almost completely gone out of use, for we saw not a single Samoyed archer.

Now, this seems at once to connect the Aino with the Samoyed and the Lapp.

These plains are early free of snow, and are covered with a rich turf, which yields good pasture to the Samoyed reindeer herds.

During night we passed a place where five Samoyed tents were pitched, in whose neighbourhood a large number of reindeer pastured.

The Samoyed shamans are, as a rule, the most intelligent and cunning of the whole race.

They had almost got to lying in the sleeping-bags by day, when a Samoyed declared he smelt the smoke of a native encampment.

The modifications to which our own alphabet has been subjected, are those that Castrn has made in his Samoyed grammar and lexicon.

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