Lapponian, a. and n.
(læˈpəʊnɪən)
Also 8–9 Laponian.
[ad. med.L. Lap(p)ōn-em (see Lapp) + -ian.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Lapps, or their language. B. n. A Lapp.
| 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 459 There was a Lapponian which brought one of these into Germany. 1768 Beattie Ministr. i. lix, The chill Lapponian's dreary land. 1854 Macaulay in Trevelyan Life (1876) II. 377, I amused myself with making out a Laponian New Testament by the help of a Norwegian Dictionary. |
So Laˈpponic, a. [cf. F. laponique.] = prec. A.
| 1890 in Webster. |