Ingushn.
/ˈɪnɡʊʃ//ɪnˈɡʊʃ/ a. One of a North Caucasian people, forming the minor part of the population of Checheno-Ingushetia.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Caucasus > [noun]
Circassian1555
Svan1601
Mingrelian1613
Abkhaz1686
Abaza1693
Lezgin1728
Ossetian1794
Abkhazian1799
Adyghe1799
Ainu1811
Chechen1814
Ossete1814
Kabardian1824
Tat1834
Laz1836
Caucasian1843
Svanetian1854
Ossetin1869
Gurian1876
Avar1881
Ingush1902
Megrelian1961
Megrel1967
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 1/2 The Kabardian aristocracy, who were possessed of feudal rights over the Ossets, the Ingushes, the Abhazes, and the mountain Tatars.
1908 J. F. Baddeley Russian Conquest Caucasus xxviii. 468 The Russians..decided to gather the Ingoushee..into a few large settlements.
1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 548/1 Although the Ingushes speak a Chechen dialect, they have recently been proved to be, anthropologically, quite a distinct race.
1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xxi. 77 The false impression that the Caucasian peoples..were hostile to Russia, whereas this had been true only of the Ingush and the Chechens.
1958 Everyman's Encycl. III. 189/2 A number of peoples (Chechens, Ingushes, Balkars, Karachays, and Kalmyks) were deported from N[orth] C[aucasus] to central Asia in 1943 for alleged collaboration with the Germans, and only rehabilitated in 1957.
b. The North Caucasic language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Caucasian > [noun] > north Caucasian
Abaza1840
Adyghe1840
Circassian1842
Abkhazian1855
Abkhaz1875
Chechen1928
Ubykh1951
Ingush1954
Kabardian1956
1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 101 Ingush, a Chechen dialect (Eastern Caucasian group of the North Caucasian family of languages).
Compounds
attributive or as adj.
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1908 J. F. Baddeley Russian Conquest Caucasus v. 86 The Ingoush elders..[were] summoned to Mozdók.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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