Yakut
noun
a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River Valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
Yakuts
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pluralof Yakut.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Several Yakuts had settled on the neighbouring coast, where was also a Russian simovie.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
From father to son these two ruling passions have been handed down even to the Yakuts of the present day.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Evan Marrett
As many as forty thousand horses used to pass annually between the two points, nearly all of them owned and driven by Yakuts.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
"Beware of him who has lost his shadow," say the Yakuts, for such a one is thought to be dogged by misfortune, which is always ready to fall upon him unawares.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Evan Marrett
Although the Yakuts keep up the rod, or great family, for some purposes, we are told that often "nothing unites the members of the rod but a vague tradition of common descent."
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
