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Karelian

Karelian

1 9.9
A person from Karelia who belongs to a people related to the Finns, with their own language and traditions
  • noun
translation icon : kareliano
  • It is a creepy feeling the Karelians have a special word for: to be living among the dead, seen by the unseen, a word having to do with ice in the blood.

Examples

  • The Finnish girls never even gave him a nod, and he liked the way those Karelians knew how to wear makeup and even flirt a little—not at all like the girls he'd grown up with.

  • The other historical peoples of Baltic-Finnic stock, the Vots, Izhorians, southern Karelians, and Vepsians, maintained their intrinsic identity.

    Academic text (2000)

  • All of us started crying because it meant that all of us Karelians would not be returning home.

Synonyms

Carelian
vsKarelian
9.9

A person who belongs to the native people of Karelia in Russia and Finland

uses the Finnic classification rather than the Finnish national label

Compounds

Karelian Isthmus
8.8

A narrow area of land between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga that connects Finland and Russia

Karelian language
9.9

A language people speak in Karelia, a region in Russia and Finland

Surface Forms

Karelian singular
Karelians plural

Morphology

Karelian = Karelia (transparent) = Karelia + an

Standard demonym/adjectival formation from the place name 'Karelia'; meaning 'a person from or relating to Karelia' is predictable.

Etymology

Karelian comes from the name of the region Karelia, so a Karelian is a person from that place; Karelians are a people related to the Finns who live around the border of Finland and Russia.