| 释义 |
Yakut, n. and a.|jæˈkʊt|
Also 8 Yakouti, Yakuty, 9 Yakute.
[a. Russ.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) a Mongoloid people of north-eastern Siberia which now constitutes the majority of the population of the Yakutsk Republic of the Soviet Union.
1763J. Bell Travels I. 240 The Yakuty differ little from the Tongusians. 1797Encycl. Brit. XVI. 570/2 Besides these, there are in the Russian dominions the Nagay Tartars;..the Yakouti; and the white Kalmuks. 1890J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. i. 26 When the day is hot and a Yakut has a long way to go. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. i. ii. 51 The Yakuts were imprisoned after the revolt of 1928. 1981M. C. Smith Gorky Park i. viii. 107 Some twenty-odd Russians and Yakuts surrounding a small group of Westerners and Japanese.
b. The language of the Yakuts, an Altaic one usually placed in the Turkic group.
1908T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. of Lang. viii. 134 The linguistic connection within this group is very close, the languages of the extremes, Turkish and Yakut, for instance, being at least as distinctly related as English and German. 1951W. K. Matthews Languages U.S.S.R. ii. 8 Before the Revolution Yukagir was proscribed in favour of Yakut and Russian. 1976‘S. Harvester’ Siberian Road xiv. 165 The middle-aged woman translated what he said into a language he took to be Yakut.
B. adj. Pertaining to or designating the Yakuts.
1854Max Müller in C. Bunsen Outl. Philos. Universal Hist. I. 279 The Yakute dialect became separated at a very early time from the still undivided Turko-Tataric speech. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 9/1 The Tunguses..occupy as their hunting-grounds an immense region on the high plateau and its slopes to the Amur, but their limits are yearly becoming more and more circumscribed both by Russian gold-diggers and by Yakut settlers. 1963V. Nabokov Gift iv. 267 Making clumsy paper boats for Yakut children. 1981I. Boland tr. Ginzburg's Within Whirlwind ii. iv. 218 He was a Yakut boy—or at least his mother was Yakut. |