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Definition of Lappish
1. Noun. Any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages.
Generic synonyms: Uralic, Uralic Language
Specialized synonyms: Lapp, Saame, Saami, Same, Sami
Definition of Lappish
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.
Definition of Lappish
1. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to the Lapps or their language. ¹
2. Proper noun. A language family spoken by the Lappish people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lappish
Literary usage of Lappish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"It is about 60 geographical miles * From the lappish baste, " holy." The river
is also called the Kloster, because the salmon fishery once belonged to the ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... of things about which inquiry was made; having slept with this under his head,
the magician on awaking told what he had seen in his dreams. —The lappish ..."
3. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"The climate of the lappish territory is extremely cold for nine months of the
year; while the excessive heat of July and Aug., when in the northernmost ..."
4. Norsk, Lapp, and Finn or, travel tracings from the far north of Europe. by Frank Vincent (1881)
"Having procured a guide who spoke lappish, we rowed across the fiord to the
mainland and then walked up a dreary dale to the encampment. ..."
5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Halász; and a grammar of Norwegian lappish (1882), by S. Nielsen; further, ...
In the Russian dialect of lappish there exist only two versions of Si ..."
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