Samoyed
pronunciation
How to pronounce Samoyed in British English:
UK [ˌsæmɔiˈed]
How to pronounce Samoyed in American English:
US [ˈsæməˌjɛd, -ɔɪˌɛd, səˈmɔɪɪd]
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- Noun:
- a Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia
- the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed people in northwestern Siberia
- Siberian breed of white or cream dog of the spitz family
Word Origin
- Samoyed (n.)
- Siberian Mongolian people, 1580s, from Russian samoyed (11c.), traditionally literally "self-eaters," i.e. "cannibals" (the first element cognate with same, the second with eat), but this might be Russian folk etymology of a native name: The common Russian etymology of the name Samoyed, meaning "self-eater," deepened the Russians' already exotic image of far-northerners. The most probable linguistic origin of Samoyed, however, is from the Saami -- saam-edne, "land of the people" [Andrei V. Golovnev and Gail Osherenko, "Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story," Cornell University, 1999] Which would make the name a variant of Suomi "Finn." The native name is Nenets. As the name of a type of dog (once used as a working dog in the Arctic) it is attested from 1889.
Example
- 1. Will you be the owner of the samoyed ?
- 2. Why don 't you buy a samoyed puppy in england ?
- 3. Physically , the samoyed dog is the most efficient design of the northern breeds .
- 4. Nearly every samoyed dog in the west today has ancestors that were used to explore the arctic and antarctic .
- 5. A local woman has been living with a samoyed dog since she was a teenager , the shanghai evening post reported yesterday .