1848 J. C. Prichard in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1847 241The Turanian, or as I shall term them, Ugro-Tartarian languages, or the languages of High-Asia and other regions{ddd}Ugro-Tartarian nations.
1852 Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. ii. 1347The Turanian, or Ugro-Tartarian ..; spoken by the (Mongolian) people of High Asia and of certain parts of Northern Europe. [ languages]
1862 Temple Bar Nov. 549 The Ugro-Finns, whom they have driven northwards.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 210/1The term Finns..being, with its adjective Finnic or Finno-Ugric or Ugro-Finnic, the collective name of the westernmost branch of the great Uralo-Altaic family.
1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. ofLang. II. viii. 190It is more than doubtful whether we can class the Mongols physically with the Turkish-Tartars or the Ugro-Finns.
1883 Morfill SlavonicLit. ii. 31In 681 the Slavonic settlers fell under the power of a tribe of Bulgarians, a Ugro-Finnish race.
1886 M. A. Morrison in Jrnl. R. AsiaticSoc. XVIII. ii. 177Broadly speaking,..the Ugro-Altaic languages are spoken over a region extending through more than 100 degrees of longitude.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 11/2The Yeniseians were followed by the Ugro-Samoyedes.
1896 Keane Ethnology ix. 201Bulgarians [ The] Ugro-Slavonic. [ are]
ORIGIN: from Ugr(ian + -o- .