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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)play

  Familiarity information: FENNIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FENNIC (noun)


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:

Fennic; Finnic; Non-Ugric

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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