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Chukchee, Chukchi, n. and a.|ˈtʃʊktʃiː|
Also Chukch, Chukche, Tchuktchi, etc.
[a. Russ. Chúkchi pl. (sing. Chúkcha).]
A. n.
a. A Palæoasiatic people of extreme north-eastern Siberia.
b. One of these people.
c. The language spoken by them.
B. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to this people or one of their number, or their language.
b. Of the district which some of them inhabit.
1780Coxe Russ. Disc. App. i. vii. 294 The first intelligence concerning the supposed vicinity between Asia and America was derived from the reports of the Tschutski in their intercourse with the Russians. Ibid. iii. 43 Several Tschutski..appeared upon the heights singly and not in bodies. 1802M. Sauer in J. Billings Exped. N. Russ. (Front.) A Tshutski Woman. 1840E. J. Sabine tr. Wrangell's Narr. Exped. Polar Sea ix. 206 As Russian subjects they became at enmity with the Koraki and Tschuktschi. 1868[see Alaskan a.]. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 547/2 The northern part [of the Maritime Province], known as the land of the Chukchees, occupies the north-eastern peninsula of Asia. 1887Ibid. XXII. 9 A separate North Asian linguistic group..include the Tchuktchis, who may number 12,000. 1890Frazer Golden Bough I. i. 48 In 1814, a pestilence having broken out among the reindeer of the Chukch, the Shamans declared that the beloved chief Koch must be sacrificed. 1906Daily Chron. 4 Apr. 7/5 A number of Chukchis..dwelt on the upper reaches of the Rivers Omolon and Oloi for two years. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. xi. 411 The so-called Hyperborean or Paleo-Asiatic languages..comprise the Yukaghir, Chukche, and Koryak, spoken in the northeastern corner of Siberia. 1948K. Davis Human Soc. (1959) ii. x. 267 If..this woman had been reared in a Chukchee camp in Siberia, such a conflict could not have occurred, because among the Chukchee sexual relations with men other than the husband are considered right and proper. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIII. 250/1 The Chukchi peninsula lies north of the line that would connect Chaun bay on the Arctic ocean with Kresta..bay on the Anadir gulf... The number of Chukchi in the Chukchi peninsula was estimated at 2,000..but the Chukchi have spread to Kamchatka... Their name means rich in reindeer. |