LAPPISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lappish mean? 

• LAPPISH (noun)
  The noun LAPPISH has 1 sense:

1. any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAPPISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Lappic; Lappish

Hypernyms ("Lappish" is a kind of...):

Uralic; Uralic language (a family of Ural-Altaic languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Lappish"):

Lapp; Saame; Saami; Same; Sami (the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula)