a. and sb. [f. Ugri, the name given by early Russian writers to an Asiatic race dwelling east of the Ural Mountains.]
A. adj. Belonging to, of or pertaining to, a division of Ural-Altaic peoples, which includes the Finns and Magyars.
1841. Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, III. 277. The fourth branch are the Ugorian races, the Ougres or Ugrian tribes. Ibid., 322. The proper Ostiaks of Ugrian origin.
1861. Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, I. v. 32. Taurainans…. Divisions: 1, the Mongolian stock;… 4, the Ugrian stock; 5, the Peninsular stock.
1889. S. Bryant, Celtic Ireland, 5. The early Finnish or Ugrian type, that wandered westwards from the northeast.
B. sb. 1. A member of the Ugrian stock.
1841. Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, III. 274. In Asia various Tartar or Turkish tribes have encroached on the southern borders of the Tschudes and Ugrians.
1862. Latham, Elem. Compar. Philol., 127. The Ugrians lead not only from Asia to Europe, but to America as well.
1889. S. Bryant, Celtic Ireland, 5. Later immigrations … may have included … mixtures of the Ugrian with the Celt.
2. The language of the Ugrians. Also attrib.
1862. Latham, Elem. Compar. Philol., 150. The Votiak is the Ugrian of the Government of Viatka.
1877. Encycl. Brit., VII. 183/1. The following is the order of the groups, some of the more important languages … standing alone:—… Celtic, Lithuanic, Slavonic, Ugrian, Turkish.
