Definition of Cheremiss

1. Noun. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.

Exact synonyms: Cheremis, Mari
Group relationships: Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia
Generic synonyms: Russian

2. Noun. The Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis.
Exact synonyms: Cheremis, Mari
Generic synonyms: Volgaic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheremiss

Chenopodiales
Chenopodium album
Chenopodium ambrosioides
Chenopodium bonus-henricus
Chenopodium botrys
Chenopodium capitatum
Chenopodium glaucum
Chenopodium hybridum
Chenopodium murale
Chenopodium rubrum
Chenoua
Cher
Cherbourg
Cheremis
Cheremiss
Cherenkov effect
Cherenkov radiation
Cherepovets
Cheri
Cherkasy
Cherkess Autonomous Oblast
Cherkessk
Chermidae
Chernihiv
Chernivtsi
Chernobyl
Chernobyls
Cherokee
Cherokee rose

Literary usage of Cheremiss

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"cheremiss story of the creation of man. African stories of the creation of man. ... The cheremiss of Russia, a Finnish people, tell a story of the creation ..."

2. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"The whole ceremony, observes the writer who has described it, looks almost like a caricature of the Eucharist.2 According to another account, each cheremiss ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... the Finns, Lapps and cheremiss. There arc abo clan gods worshipped by each clan with special ceremonies. Traces of ancestor-worship are also found. ..."

4. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"... the middle basin of the Volga, as far as about the soth degree of north latitude, we find the southern group of the Ugrians composed of cheremiss (Fig. ..."

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