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Mordvin|ˈmɔːdvɪn|
Also Mordv, Mordvian, Mordvine, Mordvinian.
[Russ.]
a. A member of a Finnish people inhabiting the region of the middle Volga.
b. The Finno-Ugric language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj. So ˈMordva, this people collectively.
1736tr. P. J. von Strahlenberg's Historico-Geogr. Descr. N. & E. Europe & Asia xiii. 412 Morduini, Are Pagans, in Russia, who live under the Government of Nischneygorod. 1800W. Tooke Hist. Russia I. i. 19 The Mordvines, called by themselves Moræ, and formerly by the Russians Meren. 1802F. W. Blagdon tr. Pallas's Trav. S. Provinces Russian Empire I. 34 The Mordvines..are more solicitous to preserve the forests in the countries they inhabit. 1879Encycl. Brit. VIII. 700/1 Finnic or Ugrian represented by..Mordvinian. Ibid. IX. 219/2 The Volga Finns include..the Mordvinian, divided into small communities on both banks of the Volga. 1883Ibid. XVI. 45/2 Even now part of the Mordvinians (of Finnish origin) call themselves Meschers. Ibid. 813/2 Mordvinians, more correctly Mordva, or Mordvs, are a people numbering about one million. 1898R. Brown Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythol. iii. iii. 89 Chaïtan (= Arabic Shaitan, Heb. Satan) appears in the Mordvinian Pantheon. 1925P. Radin tr. Vendryès's Lang. iii. 118 In Chermish and Mordvian, the -t forms both the plural of nouns and the third person plural of verbs. 1931K. Breshkovskaia Hidden Springs of Russian Revolution xxiv. 287, I talked also to the Cheremisses and the Mordva. 1933[see Cheremiss]. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xii. 369 The languages of the Uralic family are..Finnish group: Finnish proper.., Lapp.., Cheremiss, and Mordvin. 1942K. W. Deutsch in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 601 Of the 13 remaining nationalities, nine have formed administrative units on a national, linguistic basis with various degrees of political self-government within the European part of the U.S.S.R.: the Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Cheremiss, Mordvins, [etc.]. 1944B. H. Sumner Survey Russian Hist. i. 23 The Mordva..centred around the junction of the Volga and the Kama. 1960E. R. Goodman Soviet Design for World State ix. 275 Examining any one of the languages of the Soviet Union, e.g., Mordvinian, one is shocked by the discovery that it swarms with Russian words, and that only the suffixes are Mordvinian. 1971P. Longworth Cossacks ii. 55 There was a ruling class of semi-nomadic Tatars and the primitive Ostyaks, Voguls and Mordvins paid them tribute. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama of Indo-European Lang. 152 The chief [languages] are Estonian.., Mordvin (1 m[illion], Mordva ASSR). |