Samoyed
/ˈsaməjɛd
/ /ˈsamɔɪjɛd/noun
1A member of a group of mainly nomadic peoples of northern Siberia, who traditionally live as reindeer herders.The Samoyed is Spitz-type which takes its name from the Siberian tribe of the Samoyeds....
- One myth - again judging from such peoples as the Samoyeds and Buryats - would seem to have been an earth-diver creation in which an animal is sent by the creator to find an earthly substance in the depths of the primal waters.
- Thousands of years ago the ancestors of both the present Finno-Ugrians and the Samoyeds lived together in their Uralic homeland.
2 [mass noun] Any of several Samoyedic (Uralic) languages of the Samoyeds.One tribe, the Kamasin, spoke Samoyed until the middle of the last century.
2.1 another term for Samoyedic. [as modifier]: Nenets is the most widely spoken of the Samoyed languages...
- The Finno-Ugric and Samoyed languages split more than 6,000 years ago.
- The north European tundra is populated by several related peoples speaking Samoyedic languages.
3A dog of a white Arctic breed.For a white dog, the Samoyed stays amazingly clean, but an occasional bath is necessary....
- And as for the dogs, three different breeds compete in Scotland, and were in evidence at Aviemore: Siberian huskies, the lean sprinters; Samoyeds, large, white and fluffy; and Malamutes, the heavier freight dogs.
- The Samoyed is a snow dog and loves the outdoors.
Origin
From Russian samoed.
- ride roughshod over
- rider's bone
- ridership
- rider stone
- Ride, Sally
- ride-share
- ride-sharing
- ride shotgun
- ride skimmington
- ride someone down
- ride something out
- ride the clutch
- ride the pine (or bench)
- ride the rods (or rails)
- ride to hounds
- ride up
- rideway
- ridge
- ridgeback
- ridge-band
- ridge barrow
- ridge bone
- ridge chain
- ridge crest
- ridge cucumber