1864 Smithsonian Inst. Ann. Rep. 1863 110The Scythian family..is divided into five principal branches: 1. The Ugrian, or Finno-Hungarian, . [ etc.]
1877 Illustr. London News 23 May 2/2If the surrounding Finno-Swedish atmosphere has had any influence on him, it has been to develop his inborn Russian patriotism.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 219/1The 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. Lang. II. vi. 9The roots of the Finno-Ugrian dialects exhibit the same vowel⁓harmony.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 779/2The nearer relation of the Samoyed is with the Finno-Hungarian.
1888 Ibid. XXIV. 1/1The Ural-Altaic, Finno-Tatar, or ‘Turanian’ languages.
1895 A. H. Keane Ethnol. 200We have in Europe..mixed Finno-Slavs, Slavo-Teutons, Kelto-Teutons, but no Finno-Slav, Slavo-Teutonic or Kelto-Teutonic tongues.
1933 . [ see Finnish a.]
1955 Proc. Prehist. Soc. XXI. 91The kinship system belongs to the Finno-Ugric system, characterized by bilateral descent and division into age groups.
1961 L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Language v. 92The zone of slight affrication..Greek, Romance, Germanic, and Finno-Ugrian.
ORIGIN: from Finn + -o- .
Finno-
Prefix
- Finland.
- Finnish.
- Finn.