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FENNIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Fennic mean?
• FENNIC (noun)
The noun FENNIC has 1 sense:
1. one of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian)
Familiarity information: FENNIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("Fennic" is a kind of...):
Finno-Ugrian; Finno-Ugric (a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Fennic"):
Permic (a group of Finnic languages spoken in the northwest Urals)
Volgaic (a group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river)
Baltic-Finnic (a group of Finnic languages including Finnish and Estonian)
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