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Ostiak

Ostiak is the alternative form of Ostyak.

Meaning of Ostyak

Noun

Ostyak (plural Ostyaks)

  1. (archaic) A member of any of several indigenous peoples in Siberia, Russia, including the Khanty people and the Ket people.
    • The Ostiacks blister their skin by a fungus found on Birch-trees; and use the Agaricus officin. for Soap.1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 36

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Forms of Ostiak

pluralOstiaks

Questions about Ostiak

What is Ostiak the alternative form of?
Ostiak is the alternative form of Ostyak.

Words near Ostiak in the dictionary

  1. Ostheim
  2. osthol
  3. osthya
  4. ostia
  5. Ostia Antica
  6. Ostiak
  7. Ostiaks
  8. ostial
  9. ostially
  10. Ostian
  11. Ostians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ostiak (page history and authors); Ostyak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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