Zyriann.adj.
/ˈzɪrɪən/ A. n.
A member of the Komi people of northern Russia. Also: the language of this people; = Komi n. 2.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of northern and central Russia > [noun]
Sauromatian1611
Sarmatian1613
Lamut1764
Siryenian1878
Zyrian1886
Komi1888
the mind > language > languages of the world > Uralic > [noun] > Samoyedic > Finno-Ugric > Finnic > Permian
Permian1798
Zyrian1886
Komi1942
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 79/2 The Permians,..including..the Zyrians in Vologda, Archangel, Vyatka, and Perm.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 317/2 Syryenians (also Sirianian, Syrjenian, Zyrenian, Zirianian, Zyrian and Zirian).
1926 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 101/1 The Syriän is spoken by a large population in the districts of Perm, Viatka, Archangel, and Vologda.
1929 Encycl. Brit. IX. 258/2 Zyrian is spoken by about 250,000 people.
1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 405 Permian, with its two varieties Zyrian and Votyak.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 68 Four further branches of the Finno-Ugrian stock... Permian, consisting of Votyak and Zyrian.
1942 K. W. Deutsch in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 600 Syryen (Komi).
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. viii. 482 Other peoples..such as the Zyryans or Syryans (now called Komi).
1951 W. K. Matthews Langs. U.S.S.R. iii. 20 The Yuraks have loans from Zyryan (Komi), a Finnic language.
1955 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1954 99 The forms are: Norwegian Lappish miettâ..Syryane ma [etc.].
1972 Language 48 848 7b is given by Hockett for ‘German,..French.., Zyryan’.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of northern and central Russia > [adjective]
Zyrian1951
the mind > language > languages of the world > Uralic > [adjective] > Samoyed > Finno-Ugric languages > Finnic > Permian
Permian1735
Permic1913
Zyrian1951
1951 W. K. Matthews Langs. U.S.S.R. iii. 25 Zyryan resistance to the Russians was less dogged and implacable than Ugrian.
1978 K. Rédei (title) Zyrian folklore texts.
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