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Livonian, n. and a.|lɪˈvəʊnɪən|
[f. med.L. Livonia, Livland, a former Baltic province of Russia.]
A. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of Livonia.
b. The language of the Livonian people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Livonia, or to the Livonian people or their language.
1652Heylyn Cosmographie ii. 167 Derpt or Derbren..situate on the Beck..in the midst of the Province; and taken at the same time by the Moscovite; who transporting the Livonians into other places, planted these parts with Colonies of his own people. 1677[see Prussian n.]. 1757J. Dyer Fleece iv. 139 The Livonian gulph Receives her sails. 1824J. D. Cochrane Narr. Journey Russia & Siberian Tartary I. 23 A young Livonian Baron..gave me letters of recommendation to the frontiers of Siberia. 1841[see Lettish a. (n.)]. 1872[see Lettic a. (n.)]. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 723/2 [The] plateaus..of Haanhoff and of the Livonian Aa. Ibid. 724/1 The Livonians..have nearly all passed away. 1926Spectator 31 July 176/1 If one of their German servants or retainers wanted to marry a Livonian girl the Lutheran priest would seek to stop him. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. 68 The other languages of the Baltic branch, Carelian,..Ludian, Vepsian, Livonian, [etc.]. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 27 June 532/2 Descended, to quote his own words, from ‘a middle-class East Prussian, a Westphalian peasant's son, a Livonian bourgeoise and a Livonian noblewoman’. 1954Trans. Philol. Soc. 86 In the Livonian dialect of Lettish all gender has vanished, a state of affairs clearly due to the influence of Livonian, a Finno-Ugrian, genderless language. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 140 Languages belonging to the Baltic division of Finnic... The best known of the languages concerned is Livonian which in the thirteenth century still predominated in the area of the Gulf of Riga, i.e., in the historic province of Livonia. It is not yet entirely extinct. |