Also 8 Vogoul, Wougoul, 9 Wogule, Vogule. [Russian вогулъ, G. Wogul, etc.] One of a tribe of the Ugrian stock inhabiting Tobolsk and Perm. Hence † Wogulian (-olian); Wogulic a. [G. Wogulisch].
[1698. trans. Brand’s Jrnl. Embassy, 21. Wogultzoi.]
1780. W. Tooke, Russia, I. 157. The Vogouls.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 84. The Wogolians are rather below the middle stature. Ibid. A Wougoul village is commonly composed of one family.
1813. Q. Rev., Oct., 256. Classes and Families of Languages…. Siberian, Permian, Wogulic.
1887. Encycl. Brit., XXII. 8/2. The Voguls … on the eastern slopes of the Urals.
