Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Finno-Ugric.
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Finno-Ugric.
A Corded Ware way of life may have been adopted in Finno-Ugrian regions by people still living a sub-Neolithic, foraging way of life, for whom the mobility of herding would have come naturally.
2006, Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason, Encyclopedia of European Peoples, page 252
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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Finno-Ugrian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Finno-Ugrian
“Finno-Ugrian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Finno-Ugrian. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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