Ugric

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A group of related languages, including Hungarian and some spoken in northwest Siberia

noun
/ˈjuːɡrɪk/

Specialized

: ugrino

Hungarian is classified as a Ugric language within the Finno-Ugric language family.
Finno-Ugric
Ugric languages

Examples

Finno-Ugric language patterns in the Urals.

Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990)
Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language.

Blog text (24)
I speak Estonian, which is closely related to Finnish, and they are part of the difficult Finno-Ugric group of languages.

Blog text (27)
Finns are culturally similar to Estonians; both languages belong to the Finno-Ugric language group and are unlike most other European languages.

Academic text (2001)
Linguists identify several Ugric languages that are primarily spoken in northwestern Siberia.
The Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric language family includes languages like Hungarian and Mansi.

Synonyms

Ugrian

vsUgric

Specialized

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A group of related languages spoken in Hungary and western Siberia

has identical meaning but uses an alternate form of the name

Compounds

Finno-Ugric

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A group of related languages that includes Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian

Non-Ugric

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A group of Finno-Ugric languages including Finnish and Estonian but not Hungarian

Surface Forms

Ugric singular

Ugrics plural

Morphology

Ugric = Ugr + ic

The suffix '-ic' is a regular adjectival formation meaning 'relating to', but the stem 'Ugr' is an ethnonym/combining form not a standalone English word and the sense is a specialized linguistic term, so an average learner cannot derive the meaning from the parts.

Etymology

Ugric comes from an old name Ugri for a group of people and was later used by language experts for the branch that includes Hungarian and some Siberian languages. So, Ugric means 'related to that group of languages'.