单词 | samoyed |
释义 | Samoyedn.adj. A. n. 1. One of Mongolian race inhabiting Siberia. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Siberia > [noun] > Mongol peoples of Siberia > person Samoyed1589 Kamchadal1764 Kamchatkan1797 1589 A. Jenkinson in Early Voy. Russia & Persia (1886) I. 36 The Tartars and Gentiles, called Samoydes. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 432 The Samoits or Samoyeds are clad from head to foot in Deeres-skinnes. 1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes iv. 129 The countries inhabited by the Samoids. 1726 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. (1777) II. 34 The Samojedes wondered much at the Czar of Muscovy for not living among them. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece iv. 127 The hardy Samoïd. 1812 P. B. Shelley in Dowden Life (1887) I. 319 The poor are as abject as Samoyeds. 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 467/1 South of the Samoyedes are the Ostiaks, who occupy both banks of the river Obi. 1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia i. 31 Among Lapps and Samoyeds. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 118/1 The language now spoken by the Samoyedes belongs to the Finno-Ugrian group, and is allied to Finnish but has a more copious system of suffixes. 1944 J. S. Gregory & D. W. Shave U.S.S.R. iv. 162 Occupying territory lying roughly between that of the Palæo-Asiatic groups and the groups of Finnish origin are the peoples commonly known in the past as the Samoyedes, although now more correctly named Nentsi and Ostyak Samoyedes. 1972 Language 48 206 The Samoyeds make up only one small group of scattered tribes among the many non-Russian peoples who have inhabited Siberia. 2. Also with small initial. A white or buff dog belonging to the breed so called, once used as working dogs in the Arctic, and distinguished by a thick, shaggy coat, stocky build, pricked ears, and a tail curled over the back. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Spitz > types of Eskimo dog1774 Eskimo1830 husky1871 elk-hound1878 Malamute1884 schipperke1887 Samoyed1889 skip1895 Eskimo husky1896 laika1905 keeshond1926 Akita1928 Siberian1928 Finnish Spitz1930 Siberian husky1930 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Apr. 6/2 A beautiful brown silky-haired sharp-eared Samoyed dog. 1905 H. de Bylandt Dogs of All Nations I. 576 Samoyed dog. (Laika or Siberian dog)... Dog of medium size, well built and cobby, covered with a thick fur. 1914 N. Newnham-Davis Gourmet's Guide to London liii. 340 [He] brought me in..to look at a delightful little Samoyede puppy. 1922 R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog vii. 98 The white Samoyed is one of the most beautiful of all dogs. 1923 Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. The continued popularity of the Samoyeds, the white Arctic dogs. 1934 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Sept. p. iv/2 These Arctic or sub-Arctic dogs—huskies, malamutes, Samoyeds..are wonderful in their strength, powers of endurance, and stoutness of heart. 1954 M. K. Wilson tr. K. Lorenz Man meets Dog ix. 90 Pointed muzzles, obliquely set Mongolian eyes and pricked ears pointing sharply upwards..that fascinating expression which distinguishes Greenland sledge-dogs, Samoyeds and Huskies. 1977 G. Marton Alarum 61 The well-fed passengers..probably expected to be carried across immense ice fields by rough Samoyed dogs. B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Samoyeds. Also quasi-n., their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Siberia > [adjective] > Mongol peoples of Siberia Samoyed1667 Samoyedic1813 Yakut1854 Buriatic1902 Yukaghir1932 Nenets1939 the mind > language > languages of the world > Uralic > [noun] > Samoyedic Samoyed1822 Samoyedic1888 the mind > language > languages of the world > Uralic > [adjective] > Samoyed Samoyed1822 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 696 From the North Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shoar. View more context for this quotation 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 639/1 It is said that all the Samoied women have black nipples. 1822 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. I. xxiii. 571 The Tunguse is a dialect of the Mantchou; the Samoyede differs from it. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. xii. 230 The second branch [of the Turanian family of languages] is the Samoyed. 1956 J. Whatmough Lang. 28 In the north, Samoyede, a member of the same family as the Finnish dialects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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