Ostyak
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Etymology
Russian остя́к (ostják, “Easterner”), from Eastern Khanty Ас ях (As jah, “people of the river Ob”).
Noun
Ostyak (plural Ostyaks)
- (now rare) A member of any of several indigenous peoples in Siberia, Russia, including the Khanty people and the Ket people.
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 36:
- The Ostiacks blister their skin by a fungus found on Birch-trees; and use the Agaricus officin. for Soap.
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