a. and sb. Also 89 Laponian. [ad. med.L. Lap(p)ōn-em (see LAPP) + -IAN.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Lapps, or their language. B. sb. A Lapp.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 459. There was a Lapponian which brought one of these into Germany.
1768. Beattie, Minstr., I. lix. The chill Lapponians dreary land.
1854. Macaulay, in Trevelyan, Life (1876), II. 377. I amused myself with making out a Laponian New Testament by the help of a Norwegian Dictionary.
So Lapponic a. [cf. F. laponique.] = prec. A.
1890. in Webster.