Kamchatkann.adj.
/kamˈtʃatkən/ A. n.
A person from the peninsula of Kamchatka in Siberia; often = Kamchadal n.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Siberia > [noun] > Mongol peoples of Siberia > person
Samoyed1589
Kamchadal1764
Kamchatkan1797
1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 429/2 The southern Kamtchatkans commonly build their villages in thick woods.
1833 W. L. Mackenzie Sketches Canada & U.S. 25 Even the wild Greenlander, the grim Kamschatkan, and the desolate Siberian love their barren wastes.
1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 110 It was a principle with the Kamtchatkans never to kill a land or sea animal without first making excuses to it.
1917 W. M. Salter Nietzsche 263 The Kamschatkans required that snow should never be scraped off with a knife.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to Kamchatka.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [adjective] > Siberia
Kamchatkan1865
trans-Siberian1896
Chukchee1957
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. v. 201 [She] sometimes might have issued her directions to equal purpose in the Kamskatchan language.
1871 Month May–June 552 The marvellous fertility and floweriness of a Kamchatkan summer.
1888 Athenæum 3 Mar. 270/3 An Eskimo offshoot, though mixed with Tuski or Kamtchatkan blood.
1937 Times 30 Dec. 9/3 By a Convention signed in 1928 Japan was given extensive fishing rights in Russian waters off the Kamchatkan and other eastern coasts.
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