a. [f. as prec. + -IC.] Of or belonging to the Ural mountains, or the peoples living in or near them.
1861. Max Müller, Lect. Sci. Lang., 302. It is generally supposed that the original seat of the Finnic tribes was in the Ural mountains, and their languages have been therefore called Uralic.
1880. Sayce, Introd. Sci. Lang., viii. II. 191. The Finno-Ugric or Uralic dialects. Ibid., 192. The civilization and migrations of the primitive Uralic tribes.
