Vepsiann.adj.

1859 R. G. Latham Descriptive Ethnol. I. xix. 409 Tshud..is a word which the Slavonians of Novgorod applied to the Non-slavonic populations with which they came in contact. We shall see it import more clearly after a notice of the Vod, and the Vesp.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 219 The Chudic, a Slav term..now restricted to the Veps or northern Chud and the Votic or southern Chud, dwelling..round the shores of Lake Onega.

1921 M. Stenbäck in T. Homén East Carelia & Kola Lapmark ii. ii. 122 Among the Onega Wepsians... Those who speak Wepsian are said to speak l'üdikš.

1933 Amer. Anthropologist 35 309 The Leningrad section studied the Finnish tribes, the Vesps, the Izhors, and some purely Russian peoples.

1877 A. H. Keane tr. A. Hovelacque Sci. of Lang. iv. 91 With the Suomi are grouped..the Chudic [language], situated in a very scattered district south of Lake Onega; the Wepsic, which is northern Chudic, [etc.].

1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 700/1 Finnic or Ugrian represented by..Finnish proper..Karelian..Tchudic..Vepsic.

1921 M. Stenbäck in T. Homén East Carelia & Kola Lapmark ii. ii. 122 Among the Onega Wepsians... Those who speak Wepsian are said to speak l'üdikš.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 68 The other languages of the Baltic branch [of the Finnish-Lapponic languages], Carelian, Olonetsian, Ludian, Vepsian, Livonian, Ingrian, and Votian, are far smaller, and some of them are near extinction.

1955 B. Collinder Fenno-Ugric Vocab. p. ix Lude.., spoken in the region west of lake Onega, is a kind of intermediary between Olonets and Veps.

1977 Language 53 477 Since the boundaries of the European continent make up the geographical frame~work of H's analysis, he includes such little-known languages as Votyak, Cheremis, and Vepsian (Uralic), and Bashkir, Karaim, and Kalmyk (Altaic).

1863 R. G. Latham Nationalities of Europe I. xvi. 162 Of the Vesp dialect, eo nomine, I have seen no specimens.

1964 Language 40 98 The Veps, Votic, and Estonian cognates.