Top Definitions
Quiz
Examples

Finno-Ugrian

[ fin-oh-oo-gree-uhn, -yoo- ]

/ ˌfɪn oʊˈu gri ən, -ˈyu- /

Save This Word!

adjective

pertaining to the Finns and the Ugrians.

noun

QUIZ

GOOSES. GEESES. I WANT THIS QUIZ ON PLURAL NOUNS!

Test how much you really know about regular and irregular plural nouns with this quiz.

Question 1 of 9

Which of the following nouns has an irregular plural form?

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of Finno-Ugrian

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby Finno-Ugrian

Finnish, Finnmark, Finno-, finnock, Finno-Russo War, Finno-Ugrian, Finno-Ugric, finny, fino, finocchio, fin ray

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2022

How to use Finno-Ugrian in a sentence

We must expect to find things just a little more Ugrian than aught else.
Opuscula|Robert Gordon Latham
If this were not the case, then was the name native, and the Roxolani were Ugrian.
Opuscula|Robert Gordon Latham
The inferences from all this are enormous extension and subsequent displacement of the Ugrian family.
The Ethnology of Europe|Robert Gordon Latham
The eastern part of Minsk, on the strength of the word Narym is considered to have been Ugrian.
The Ethnology of Europe|Robert Gordon Latham

North and east of Tambov the original Ugrian population is no longer a matter of inference.
The Ethnology of Europe|Robert Gordon Latham