Koryak
Americannoun
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a member of a Paleo-Asiatic people of northeastern Siberia.
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the Chukotian language of the Koryak people, closely related to Chukchi.
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After four long days, the caravan at last arrived at the scene Kryachko had described: a trickle of frigid water winding through strange blue-green clay in the foothills of the Koryak Mountains.
From Scientific American • Jun. 18, 2014
But this is merely a trade jargon, a hotchpotch of Eskimo, Chukchi, Koryak, English and even Hawaiian.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
For the Koryak see his monograph in the same series, Vol.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
When a party of Koryak have killed a bear or a wolf, they skin the beast and dress one of themselves in the skin.
From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir
The Koryak guardians of occupations and houses may be of the nature of such objects of worship in the clans,1081 and so also the Patagonian family-gods.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
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