Associations to the word «Yeniseian»

Wiktionary

YENISEIAN, proper noun. A family of languages spoken in central Siberia.
YENISEIAN, proper noun. Proto-Yeniseian: the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family.
YENISEIAN, noun. A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Yeniseian.
YENISEIAN, adjective. Of or relating to the languages comprising the Yeniseian language family, or their speakers.
YENISEIAN, adjective. Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Yeniseian language family.

Dictionary definition

YENISEIAN, noun. A member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia.
YENISEIAN, noun. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope