combining form of UGRIAN a., used in a few terms, as Ugro-Altaic, -Finnic, -Finnish, -Samoyede, -Slavonic, -Tartarian.
1852. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. II. 1347. The Turanian, or Ugro-Tartarian [languages]…; spoken by the (Mongolian) people of High Asia and of certain parts of Northern Europe.
1879. Encycl. Brit., IX. 210/1. The term Finns … being, with its adjective Finnic or Finno-Ugric or Ugro-Finnic, the collective name of the westernmost branch of the great Uralo-Altaic family.
1883. Morfill, Slavonic Lit., ii. 31. In 681 the Slavonic settlers fell under the power of a tribe of Bulgarians, a Ugro-Finnish race.
1886. M. A. Morrison, in Jrnl. R. Asiatic Soc., XVIII. II. 177. Broadly speaking,… the Ugro-Altaic languages are spoken over a region extending through more than 100 degrees of longitude.
1887. Encycl. Brit., XXII. 11/2. The Yeniseians were followed by the Ugro-Samoyedes.
1896. Keane, Ethnology, ix. 201. [The] Bulgarians [are] Ugro-Slavonic.
