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Ostjak

Ostjak 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 Ostjak

pluralOstjaks

Questions about Ostjak

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

Words near Ostjak in the dictionary

  1. ostiolum
  2. ostiomeatal
  3. ostitic
  4. ostitis
  5. ostium
  6. Ostjak
  7. Ostjaks
  8. ostkaka
  9. ostkakas
  10. ostler
  11. ostleress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ostjak (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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