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Lamut|læˈmuːt|
Also Lamoot, Lamout.
a. A branch of the Tungus people living on the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk.
b. The language spoken by this people, belonging to the Tunguso-Manchurian group of the Altaic language family. Also attrib. or as adj. Also Laˈmutic n.
1764J. Grieve tr. Krasheninnikov's Hist. Kamtschatka iii. xxi. 223 The people that they [sc. the Koreki] border upon are the Kamtschadales, the Tchukotskoi,..and the Tungusi or Lamuti. 1790tr. J. B. B. de Lesseps's Trav. Kamtschatka II. 383 Vocabulary of the Kamtschadale, Koriac, Tchouktchi, and Lamout languages. Ibid., (heading) Koriac... Tchouktchi... Lamout. 1830P. Dobell Trav. Kamtchatka & Siberia I. ix. 189 Lamoots are the Wild Reindeer Tongusees, who seldom inhabit one spot more than a month or two at a time. 1880A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. viii. 201 To find them we must look to the ruder Lamutic and Tungusian. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 608/2 On the Pacific the chief subdivisions of the race are the Lamuts, or ‘sea people’, grouped in small isolated hunting communities round the west coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. 1927F. Whyte tr. Bergman's Through Kamchatka xii. 196 One of the older men..was..chanting monotonous Lamut melodies... The Lamuts..are nominally Christians. Ibid. xiii. 215 So ended the Lamut winter festival. 1957G. Clark Archaeol. & Soc. (ed. 3) iii. 94 The best preserved..of the Siberian mammoths was found at Beresovka by a Lamut tribesman. 1964tr. Levin & Potapov's Peoples of Siberia 670 The Evens, who were formerly known as Lamuts,..border in the north and northeast with the Yukagirs, Koryaks and Chukchi. |