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Nenets
[ nen-ets ]
noun
, plural Nen·tsi, Nen·tsy [nent, -see], (especially collectively) Nen·ets.
- a member of a reindeer-herding Uralic people of far northern European Russia and adjacent areas of Siberia as far as the Yenisei River delta.
- the Samoyedic language of the Nenets.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Nenets1
< Russian nénets (with -ets falsely construed as the Russian suffix) < Nenets ńēnetś man, Nenets
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