name
Meaning 1
The Samoyedic languages spoken by these people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Nenets
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈnɛnɪts/
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/ˈneɪnɪts/
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noun
Meaning 2
A member of a people who live in the extreme northwest of Russia; a Samoyed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed of northern Siberia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Nentsi, Nentsy, Yurak-Samoyed
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Samoyedic, Samoyed
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ненец (nenec).
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Breton: nenetseg — language
- Catalan: iurac — language
- Dolgan: дьурак тыла (curak tıla) — language
- Dutch: Nenets — language
- Finnish: nenetsin kieli — language
- French: nénètse — language
- German: Nenzisch — language
- Hungarian: nyenyec — language
- Ingrian: nentsa — language
- Irish: Neneitsis — language
- Italian: lingua neneziana — language
- Korean: 네네츠어 (nenecheueo) — language
- Northern Mansi: ё̄рн (jōrn) — language
- Tundra Nenets: ненёця" вада (neněcǎ" vada) — language
- Norwegian: nenetsisk — language
- Ossetian: Неннаг ӕвзаг (Nennag ævzag) — language
- Polish: język nieniecki — language
- Portuguese: nenets — language
- Portuguese: samoiedo — language
- Romanian: limba neneț — language
- Russian: нене́цкий (nenéckij) — language
- Russian: нене́цкий язы́к (nenéckij jazýk) — language
- Northern Sami: nenetsagiella — language
- Serbo-Croatian: нѐначкӣ — language
- Serbo-Croatian: nènačkī — language
- Spanish: nenets — language
- Spanish: nenezo — language
- Swedish: nentsiska — language
- Dolgan: дьурак (curak) — person
- Hungarian: nyenyec — person
- Ingrian: nentsa — person
- Komi-Zyrian: яран (jaran) — person
- Northern Mansi: ё̄рн (jōrn) — person
- Polish: nieniec — person
- Portuguese: nenets — person
- Portuguese: samoiedo — person
- Russian: не́нец (nénec) — person
- Russian: не́нка (nénka) — person
- Kildin-Sami: я̄ран (jāran) — person
- Serbo-Croatian: Не́нац — person
- Serbo-Croatian: Нѐница — person
- Serbo-Croatian: Nénac — person
- Serbo-Croatian: Nènica — person
- Slovak: Nenec — person
- Spanish: nénets — person
- Spanish: nenezos — person
- Swedish: nentsier — person