Ostyak
Americannoun
noun
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a member of an Ugrian people living in NW Siberia E of the Urals
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the language of this people, belonging to the Finno-Ugric family: related to Hungarian
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Etymology
Origin of Ostyak
1715–25; < Russian ostyák originally a Khanty, later used for the Samoyedic Selkup, the Ket, and certain Mansi groups < Khanty ās-jax, plural of as-xo one living on the Ob, equivalent to Ās the river Ob + xo man
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The reindeer, after he is dead, is of as much use to the Ostyak, as when he was alive; for his skin is his master's clothing.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
She wore a veil of thick cloth over her head, as all the Ostyak women do, and as she did not need light, she hid her head completely under it.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
The Ostyak says, that he believes in ONE God who cannot be seen, but he does not worship him alone; he worships other gods.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
He is very glad when he can shoot a sable; because the Russian emperor requires every Ostyak to give him yearly, as a tax, the skins of two sables.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
Compare the man’s beating his fate-stone with the treatment the Ostyak gives his puppet.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous
The Samoyedes inhabit tents made of reindeer skins, such as the Ostyaks used to live in.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
The main population in the forest belt consists of native nomad or hunting tribes, of which Samoyeds, Ostyaks, Tunguses, and Yakuts are the most numerous.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
These very same words have been applied to the Ostyaks, the Samoyedes, the Eskimos, the Dayaks, the Aleoutes, the Papuas, and so on, by the highest authorities.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
He wishes the Ostyaks to belong to the Greek church, and he has tried to bribe them with presents of cloth to be baptized; and a good many have been baptized.
From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee
These very same words have been applied to the Ostyaks, the Samoyedes, the Eskimos, the Dyaks, the Aleuts, the Papuans, and so on, by the highest authorities.
From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Carpenter, Edward
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