Koryakn.
/ˈkɒrjak/ a. A people inhabiting the northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula; also, a member of this people.
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Gilyak1764
Koryak1780
1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. i. i. 3 The first expedition..was made in 1696, by sixteen Cossacs, under the command of Lucas Semænoff Morosko, who was sent against the Koriacks of the river Opooka.
1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. i. i. 5 The peninsula of Kamtchatka..is bounded.. on the North by the country of the Koriacs.
1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. i. iv. 49 In the autumn of 1754 they were joined by a Kamtchadal, and a Koriac.
1790 tr. J.-B.-B. de Lesseps Trav. Kamtschatka II. 105 The idiom of the Koriacs has no affinity to that of the Kamtschadales.
1832 J. Bell Syst. Geogr. IV. vi. 74 The Koriaks inhabit the country between the Anadyr and the peninsula of Kamtschatka.
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. 989/1 Koriak,..a member of a race inhabiting northeast Siberia.
1898 J. Y. Simpson Side-lights on Siberia i. 12 Of the sub-Arctic races that inhabit the north-east of Siberia, it is sufficient to recall the names of the..Tchuktchi,..the wild Koryaks..and Yukaghirs, all differing in speech and appearance, but still related.
1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools v. 45 The Fly Agaric is among the objects believed by the Koryak to be endowed with particular power.
b. The Palæo-Asiatic language of this people.
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Koryak1893
Yukaghir1908
Chukchee1932
Kamchadal1933
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. 989/1 Koriak,..a member of a race inhabiting northeast Siberia; also, their language, related to Kamchatkan. Koryak.
1910 G. Kennan Tent Life in Siberia xx. 204 It would be a hard day's work for a boy to explain in Korak one of the..problems in Ray's Higher Arithmetic.
1917 W. Bogoras Koryak Texts 2 The Koryak dialects may be divided into two large groups,—the western branch, which includes the Maritime Koryak of Penshina Bay and also the Reindeer Koryak; and the eastern branch, which includes the Maritime Koryak of Kamchatka.
1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 116 Koryak, a language, spoken by about 1,000 persons in north-eastern Asia; a member of the Chukchi-Kamchadal family of languages, classified in the Hyperborean or Palaeo-Asiatic group.
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General attributive.
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1790 tr. J.-B.-B. de Lesseps Trav. Kamtschatka II. 117 I recognized in his features a Koriac prince... I have long owed the reader a description of a Koriac sledge.
1907 W. Jochelson in Internat. Congr. Americanists XV. 121 The subterranean Koryak house is still in use among the maritime Koryak, who are not Russianised.
1910 G. Kennan Tent Life in Siberia xx. 203 The Korak numerals are:—Innín, One... Meen-ye-geet-kohin, Ten.
1917 W. Bogoras Koryak Texts 3 The Koryak language, in contrast to the Chukchee,..is furthermore divided into several local dialects.
1928 W. Jochelson Peoples of Asiatic Russia ii. 49 The northern Kamchadal dialect..contains a considerable number of Koryak words.
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