Definition of Ingrian

1. Noun. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built.

Exact synonyms: Inger, Ingerman
Group relationships: Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia
Generic synonyms: Russian

2. Noun. A Finnic language spoken by the Ingrian.
Generic synonyms: Baltic-finnic

Definition of Ingrian

1. Noun. A Finno-Ugric language spoken by the Izhorian people of Ingria ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingrian

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Inga edulis
Inga laurina
Inge
Inger
Ingerman
Ingersollian
Ingland
Inglistan
Ingmar Bergman
Ingram
Ingres
Ingria
Ingrian (current term)
Ingrid
Ingrid Bergman
Ingush
Ingush Autonomous Oblast
Ingushes
Ingushetia
Ingvaeonic
Inigo Jones
Initialwörter
Injun
Inka
Inklings
Inland Revenue
Inland Sea

Literary usage of Ingrian

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

1. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1851)
"Two thicknesses of Ingrian carpet answer very well. A drugget spread upon an Ingrian carpet yields a good supply of the fluid. The effect of the increased ..."

2. The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Kelly, Walter Keating (1854)
"... by conquering the Ingrian and Livonian ports, was almost realised; the Don Cossacks were united with the empire; and the groundwork was laid for the ..."

3. The History of Russia from the Earliest Times to 1877 by Alfred Rambaud, Graeme Mercer Adam (1904)
"An Ingrian chief told Alexander how, in the eve of the combat, he had seen a mysterious bark, manned by two warriors with shining brows, glide through the ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"Meanwhile, the grand idea of the reign of Peter the Great— that of opening to Russia the commerce of Europe, by conquering the Ingrian and Livonian ports, ..."

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