Word Meanings - FINNISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language. -- n.
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- FINNS
Natives of Finland; Finlanders. A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders. - FINLANDER
A native or inhabitant of Finland. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - LANGUAGE
tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the - LANGUAGELESS
Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak. - LANGUAGED
Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope. - THEIR
The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham. - OVERLANGUAGED
Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell. - SEA LANGUAGE
The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant. - INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach