| 释义 |
Uralic, a. and n.|jʊˈrælɪk|
[f. as prec. + -ic.]
Of or belonging to the Ural mountains, or the peoples living in or near them. Also as n., esp. a sub-family of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.
1861Max Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. 302 It is generally supposed that the original seat of the Finnic tribes was in the Ural mountains, and their languages have been therefore called Uralic. 1880Sayce Introd. Sci. Lang. viii. II. 191 The Finno-Ugric or Uralic dialects. Ibid. 192 The civilization and migrations of the primitive Uralic tribes. 1959[see Ostyak]. 1963E. A. Seeman in Current Trends in Linguistics I. 392 (heading) Uralic. 1972[see Ostyak]. 1975G. F. Cushing tr. Hajdú's Finno-Ugrian Lang. & Peoples i. 32 Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed are themselves descendants of a common language called Uralic. |
