Yakut

[ yuh-koot ]

/ yəˈkut /

a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.

the Turkic language of the Yakut.

Example sentences from the Web for yakut

A Yakut thinks nothing of working for three or four days without either eating or drinking.

The Human Race |Louis Figuier
There was deep silence in the room,—a rather unusual thing in a place where several Yakut people are together.

Tales by Polish Authors |Various
Evan was a Yakut whom my friend brought from the Lena country.

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life |Thomas Wallace Knox
The flour magazines are large, and well supplied by Yakut convoys, which constantly arrive and discharge their loads there.

The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 |Various

Meanwhile the petrified body had been laid in the coffin, and placed upon the small one-horse Yakut sledge.

Tales by Polish Authors |Various

Yakut

/ (jæˈkʊt) /

plural -kuts or -kut a native or inhabitant of the Sakha Republic, in Russia

the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family