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Lappish   Listen
noun
Lappish  n.  The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lappish" Quotes from Famous Books



... originator of that theory, for it is frequently referred to by Sir Walter Scott, who accepted it himself.[3] "In fact," he says, "there seems reason to conclude that these duergar [in English, dwarfs] were originally nothing else than the diminutive natives of the Lappish, Lettish and Finnish nations, who, flying before the conquering weapons of the Asae, sought the most retired regions of the north, and there endeavoured to hide themselves from their eastern invaders." Scott, again, refers us back to Einar Gudmund, an Icelandic writer ...
— Fians, Fairies and Picts • David MacRitchie



Words linked to "Lappish" :   Lappic, Saami, Saame, Uralic



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