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Ostyak|ˈɒstɪˌæk|
Also Ostiac, Ostiack, Ostiak, etc.
[Russ. ostyák.]
a. (A member of) a Finno-Ugric people, also called Khantý, living in the Ob River basin in Western Siberia.
b. The language of this people, belonging to the Ob-Ugrian group. Also attrib. or as adj.
1722tr. Muller's Manners & Customs of Ostiaks in tr. F. C. Weber's Present State of Russia II. 56 The Ostiacks and Samoieds often venture over those high Rocks into the Country, where they kill Elks and Rain-Deer. 1757J. Dyer Fleece iv. 143 Land of the lazy Ostiacs, thin dispers'd. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 467/1 South of the Samoyedes are the Ostiaks, who occupy both banks of the river Obi. 1859G. W. Dasent Pop. Tales from Norse p. lxvii, The Ostjaks, a tribe akin to the Lapps. 1870J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation iii. 96 The Ostiaks regard it as a crime to marry a woman of the same family or even of the same name. 1880A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. viii. 204 It is difficult..to distinguish the Ostiak forms..from the persons of the Sanskrit verb. 1889T. Duka Essay Ugor Lang. 32 Klaproth..makes mention of five Finn dialects, but describes..the Ostjak around the river Ob, and the Magyar. 1911J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) II. ix. 11 The Ostyaks and Woguls, two peoples of the Finnish-Ugrian stock in Siberia. 1933, etc. [see Ob-Ugrian]. 1938N. & Q. 23 Apr. 291/1 The Ostyaks of the Tobolsk region have a spirit of death whom they call xeina. 1944[see Nenets]. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XI. 432/2 The Uralics, so termed by Bunak, are perhaps best represented by the western Siberian Voguls and Khuntu or Ostyaks, between the Urals and the Ob basin, in reality a single people who call themselves ‘Mansi’. 1966T. Burrow Sanskrit Lang. (ed. 2) 23 Vogul and Ostyak are now found to the East of the Urals, but are considered to have moved there from the West. 1971[see Mordvin]. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 152 East of the Zyryene-speaking area, in Siberia, lie Ostyak and Vogul which with Hungarian form the Ugric division of Uralic. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipel. I. i. i. 6 From Karger they took his archive of the Yenisei Ostyaks. 1975G. F. Cushing tr. Hajdu's Finno-Ugrian Lang. & Peoples iii. 123 Anthropologically the Voguls and Ostyaks..are classed by anthropologists as Europo-Sibirid or Uralic. |