Nenets

American  

[nen-ets] / ˈnɛn ɛts /

noun

Nentsi, plural Nentsy plural

1. 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.

2. the Samoyedic language of the Nenets.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• Nentsy
  plural
• Nentsi
  plural
• Nenets
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Nenets

< Russian nénets (with -ets falsely construed as the Russian suffix) < Nenets ńēnetś man, Nenets

Example Sentences

At that time, local people lived by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants—a lifestyle still partially practiced by Nenets and Khanty people in the area today.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 29, 2023

For some coastal communities it will be “an existential threat,” the report said, adding that traditional lifestyles of the Sami and the Nenets peoples are already under threat in the European Arctic.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2022

One of the cookbook’s 55 authors, Elvira Okotetto, a computer-science and engineering student born into a Nenets reindeer-herding family on the Yamal Peninsula, was astonished that outsiders had even noticed.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2020

Kostya tells me that he first became consciously anti-fascist at the age of 15, growing up in a village in the far-northern Yamalo Nenets district.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2019

From that congress I have the following languages translated: Karelian, Udmurt, Estonian, Komi and Nenets.

From Baron Pál Podmaniczky and the Norwegian Bible by Ilona, Martinovitsné Kutas