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Yenisei

noun
1.
A Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea.  Synonyms: Yenisei River, Yenisey, Yenisey River.
2.
The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian.  Synonyms: Enets, Entsi, Entsy, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yeniseian.





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"Yenisei" Quotes from Famous Books



... Chinese Traveller speaks of it as a country where good iron was found, where (grey) squirrels abounded, and wheat was cultivated. Other notices quoted by him show that it lay to the south-east of the Kirghiz country, and had its name from the Kien or Ken R. (i.e. the Upper Yenisei). ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa


Words linked to "Yenisei" :   river, Samoyed, Siberia, Samoyedic


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