Komin.
/ˈkəʊmi/ 1. A member of a people inhabiting the Komi Republic, Russia, to the west of the Ural mountains. Cf. Zyrian n.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of northern and central Russia > [noun]
Sauromatian1611
Sarmatian1613
Lamut1764
Siryenian1878
Zyrian1886
Komi1888
1800 W. Tooke Hist. Russia I. i. 13 Komanes. They were neighbours of the Madshares or Ugres, and migrated in conjunction with them at the close of the eighth century to Pannonia. They dwelt upon the river Kuma, from which they also had their name. On the other side of the Terek is still a people named Kumuiks; perhaps remains of the old Kumanians.
1800 W. Tooke Hist. Russia I. i. 42 One part of these were called Kumani or Komani, from the river Kuma.]
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 283/1 The Zyrians..constitute the bulk of the population on the Ural slopes. They formerly inhabited the Kama and Vyatha basins, and call themselves Komi-yurt, or Komi-yas.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 317/2 They [sc. the Syrenians] call themselves Komi.
1933 H. Kohn Nationalism in Soviet Union 62 These Finnish peoples, the Komi, the Mari, and the Mordvins, were steadily pushed back by the Russians into less fruitful areas with severe climates.
2. The language of the Komi. Also attributive.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Uralic > [noun] > Samoyedic > Finno-Ugric > Finnic > Permian
Permian1798
Zyrian1886
Komi1942
1942 K. W. Deutsch in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 600 Syryen (Komi).
1959 Chambers's Encycl. XIV. 121/1 (table) Komi.
1964 Language 40 906 Komi is today represented by two literary languages, Komi(-Zyryan) and Komi-Permyak.
1964 Language 40 98 The semantic functions of the Komi and Udmurt forms.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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