Hellene

From Ἕλληνες (Héllēnes, “Greeks”), most probably a derivation of Ἑλλοί (Helloí) or Σελλοί (Selloí), the Greek inhabitants of the area around the sanctuary of Dodona (Δωδώνη (Dōdṓnē)). In Greek mythology Ἕλλην (Héllēn), whom the Ἕλληνες (Héllēnes, “Greeks”) were named after, was the son of Δευκαλίων (Deukalíōn) and Πύρρα (Púrrha).


Torontonian

en-adj

Torontonian (comparative more Torontonian, superlative most Torontonian)

more Torontonian (comparative)
most Torontonian (superlative)

Of, from, or pertaining to the city of Toronto, Canada.


Triestino

en-noun

Triestino (plural Triestinos or Triestini)

A native or inhabitant of Trieste in Italy.


Triestino

A form of the Venetian dialect used in Trieste, Italy.


Varangian

Ultimately from Byzantine Greek Βάραγγος (Bárangos), from Medieval Latin Varingus, from Old Norse væringi, from várr (“pledge”) or værr (“pledge”), which is cognate with Old English wǣr (“fidelity, loyalty”), + Old Norse gangi (“companion”). Cognate with Old English wærgenga.

(historical) A member of the ethnically Scandinavian people around the borders of Constantinople in the ninth and tenth centuries.


Gallic

en-adj

Gallic (comparative more Gallic, superlative most Gallic)

more Gallic (comparative)
most Gallic (superlative)

From Latin Gallicus (“of or related to Gaul”), from Gallia (“Gaul”) + -icus (“-ic: forming adj.”), used archaically in New Latin and English in reference to modern France.

bor

(historical) Of or related to Gaul or the Gauls.

gal

of or relating to ancient Gaul or its inhabitants


crop circle

An area in a field of crops where the stalks have been flattened into a circle or other geometric shape, performed as a prank or sometimes ascribed to UFO activity etc.


Hellenic

From Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or relating to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”), equivalent to Hellen + -ic.
The English term is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek formed in the 17th-century, attested from ca. 1640.

der

The Greek language and its dialects from the earliest records (Linear B inscriptions, about 1600-1300 B.C.E.) to the present Modern Greek.


ufologist

But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.

2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 122


ufology

en-noun

ufology (countable and uncountable, plural ufologies)

/ˌjuːɛfˈɑləd͡ʒi/

I'm an expert in my field
Ufology, yes, it's all real
Ancient aliens, it's all true
I'm an expert just like you

2016, Neil Cicierega (lyrics and music), “Touch-Tone Telephone”, in Spirit Phone, performed by Lemon Demon


Slovenian

Slovenian (countable and uncountable, plural Slovenians)

Slovene (from German, from Slovene) + -ian.

(uncountable) The official language of Slovenia.


Pict

From Latin Pictus, probably rendering a Pictish autonym; see the Latin entry for details. Compare Old English Peohtas, which appears to show the effects of Grimm's law.

A member of an ancient people of northern and central Scotland.


Irani

From Iranian Persian ایرانی (irâni) (ērānī in classical Persian).

(nonstandard) a person from Iran or of Iranian heritage


Dalmatian

(demonym) A native or inhabitant of Dalmatia.


Dalmatian

An extinct Romance language that was once spoken in Dalmatia.


Ossetian

The Eastern Iranian language spoken by these people.


Molossian

A member of the ancient Epirote ethnos which Olympias came from.


Kaw

In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Kaws attacked a Cheyenne encampment[.]

2004, R. David Edmunds, The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, page 20

A member of a particular Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.


Apollonian

2008, C. G. Stevenson, The Apollonian Appearance: The Being from the Planet Apollo, →ISBN:

At first, when the Apollonians converged on her, Mary Theresa thought she had made a major mistake by going to the battle.

2013, Jim Henry, Universal Life Force Series Featuring Antiquity Calais Vol. 1-3

The last person who tried this kind of appeal was actually the new vessel -- an Apollonian, one I knew briefly.

2013, James Bartholomeusz, The Grey Star, page 17

(science fiction) A native of the planet Apollo.


Minoan

Sir Arthur Evans, not knowing the Minoan term for “Minoan” at the time, coined this name in the early 20th century, from Ancient Greek Μίνως (Mínōs), the mythical king of Crete. The actual name is probably reflected in Egyptian kftjw (perhaps reconstructible as *Káftayu) and Biblical Hebrew כַּפְתּוֹר (Kaftor, “Caphthor”).

cog

Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 B.C.E.).

مِينُوسِيّ

Of or relating to the writing systems (Linear A and Linear B) used in Crete and later in mainland Greece.

Of or relating to the ancient language of the Minoans which died out by the beginning of the 1st millennium B.C.E.


Minoan

A person who belonged to the Minoan civilization.


Lunarian

From the stem of Latin lunaris (“of the moon, lunar”) + -ian.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth's Moon (Luna): either an indigenous humanoid one or a human one.


Mercurian

en-adj

Mercurian (comparative more Mercurian, superlative most Mercurian)

more Mercurian (comparative)
most Mercurian (superlative)


Mercurian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Mercury.

When a Mercurian is connected with the arts, it is often possible to discern a lack of the heavy, thoroughgoing seriousness which some artists seem to feel is the least that life deserves.

The thumb of a Mercurian has a tendency to be stiff, as they love money and may have difficulty sharing it.

2000, Madame La Roux, The Practice of Classical Palmistry, page 113

Unfortunately yellow color is not unusual to find in the palm of a Mercurian.

2016, Ellen Goldberg, Dorian Bergen, The Art and Science of Hand Reading


Solarian

Solarian (comparative more Solarian, superlative most Solarian)

more Solarian (comparative)
most Solarian (superlative)

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the Sun.

He grinned at the profanity that came out of the communicator-speaker. Then—back at the irreverently nicknamed Galloping Cow which was the base ship of the Extra-Solarian Research Institute expedition to this star-cluster—McRae cut off.

1947 April, Murray Leinster, “Skit-Tree Planet”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 42

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the Solar System.

The Solarian one-man ships were even smaller than the Nigrian one-man ships, and some of these did a tremendous amount of damage.

1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “The Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 521

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the inhabitants of the Solar system.


Solarian

It will be proved that a Solarian, supposing him to have a stature equal to our own, would do as much work as seven of our cultivators; and yet the Solarians are the happiest of beings; their lot is the highest degree of happiness to which we can aspire until the epoch when there shall exist stars of a more exalted rank, that are not yet to be found in our young universe.

1851, Charles Fourier, The Passions of the Human Soul, page 225

"There has been another dive since our meeting, Jacob, and on that dive, we are told, only the first and more prosaic species of Solarian was observed. Not the second variety which has caused Dr. Kepler so much concern." Jacob was still confused by the hurried explanations Kepler had given of the two types of Sun-creatures so far observed.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Sun.

The small ships of the Nigrians were beginning to take a terrific toll in the thin ranks of the Solarians. The coming of the Rocket Squad had been welcomed indeed!

Is it true that all Terrans, and other Solarians are frightfully rich, and go simply everywhere, and do as they please, and that almost nobody works?

1956 August, Charles Stearns, “The Golden Ones”, in Science Fiction Quarterly, volume 4, number 4, page 30

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of any part of the solar system of the Sun.


earthling

Alternative letter-case form of Earthling


Abkhaz

A Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Abkhazia.

аԥсуа

a Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Abkhazia


Bostonian

Bostonians eagerly await the arrival of spring after a long, cold, snowy winter.

Single-sex clusters of Bostonians made their boisterous way through the streets, hoping to collide with their opposite numbers.

2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 61

A person who was born in or who lives in Boston, Massachusetts.


Plutonian

Plutonian (comparative more Plutonian, superlative most Plutonian)

more Plutonian (comparative)
most Plutonian (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Latin Plūtōnius (“of or relating to Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives). Plūtōnius is from Ancient Greek Πλουτώνιος (Ploutṓnios, “of or relating to Pluto”), from Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “Pluto”) (from πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches, wealth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; to flow; to run”)) + -ων (-ōn)) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives). The English word is cognate with Middle French plutonien (modern French plutonien). The noun is derived from the adjective.

plutonien

of, pertaining to, or supporting plutonism — see also Plutonic

You rise by candle-light or gaslight, swearing / There never was a climate made like ours; / If rashly you go out to take an airing, / The soot-flakes come in black Plutonian show'rs.

1882 December 30, “A London Fog”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 83, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 301, column 1

Cotopaxi is striking not only because it looks like a science fiction conception of another planet; it also is the least realistic among [Frederic Edwin] Church's paintings of the area. […] Below the fiery sun is a lake with a barren shore. As such, the sun hangs over a Plutonian landscape.

2008, Rodrigo Lazo, “The Ends of Enchantment: Douglass, Melville, and U.S. Expansionism in the Americas”, in Robert S[teven] Levine, Samuel Otter, editors, Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, part I (Literary and Cultural Geographies), page 210

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal.

Plutoniin liittyvä

of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld


Plutonian

From Pluto (“dwarf planet in the Solar System”) + -n- + -ian (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘from, related to, or like’, or nouns meaning ‘one belonging to, relating to, or like’), probably influenced by Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) (see etymology 1).

affix

Another and perhaps more Plutonian view of this would be that David's bondage to his mother and the codes of behaviour which she set for him had extended throughout his life, in both profes[s]ional and personal spheres; and that bondage now had an opportunity of loosening, with all the attendant consequences.

1985, Liz Greene, “Fate and Synchronicity”, in The Astrology of Fate, Boston, Mass.: Weiser Books, Red Wheel/Weiser, page 293

The notion of toxicity is a useful one in our effort to understand the further implications of Pluto in the USA chart. [...] Factor in what we have learned about the second house and we get another meaning of waste, related but distinctly more Plutonian: debris that poses an elimination problem once its value has been used up.

2006 October 6, Jessica Murray, “Power Madness: Pluto and American Hegemony”, in Soul-sick Nation: An Astrologer’s View of America, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, page 41

(astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of Pluto, formerly regarded as a planet.

Plutoon liittyvä

pertaining to the astrological influence of Pluto, formerly regarded as a planet


Plutonian

If you are a Plutonian and some of these traits emphatically do not fit you, just let them go and take what is helpful and descriptive of you personally. What will be given is a composite picture, based on working with a great many Plutonians over the years. Plutonians who are negatively inclined are often very guarded and rigid, afraid to let others get close. [...] There are Plutonians who operate predominantly on the positive level—healing, transforming, transmuting themselves and those around them.

1986, Donna Cunningham, “The Personality and Character of the Plutonian”, in Healing Pluto Problems, Boston, Mass.: Weiser Books, Red Wheel/Weiser, page 28

(astrology) A person under the astrological influence of Pluto, formerly regarded as a planet.

The Plutonians, who are almost extinct, once held a superscience that they have largely lost. Early Plutonian visits to Earth survived in folk memory as the devil, since Plutonians are gigantic, with horns, hooves, and tail.

1998, Everett F[ranklin] Bleiler, Richard Bleiler, “[Story Descriptions.] 1423. THE EARTHMAN’S BURDEN. Astounding Stories, June 1931, Ill. Paul.”, in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years: A Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and Others from 1926 through 1936, Kent, Oh., London: Kent State University Press, page 409, column 1

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the dwarf planet Pluto.


repeater

(ufology) A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.

avvistatore

a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena


Latin American

Of or relating to Latin America, its people, or its culture.


Goth

en-noun

Goth (countable and uncountable, plural Goths)

From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.

A member of the East Germanic people known for their invasion of the western Roman Empire and subsequent founding of successor states in Italy and Spain during Late Antiquity.


Kampuchean

A person of Kampuchean (Cambodian) descent.


Mycenaean

Wiktionary’s coverage of Mycenaean Greek terms


Monégasque

/ˌmɒnɪˈɡæsk/

/ˌmɑnɪˈɡæsk/

From French Monégasque, from Ligurian munegascu, from Munegu.

(uncountable) a Ligurian dialect spoken in Monaco.


Parthian

An extinct Western Iranian language that was spoken in Parthia.


Albigensian

en-adj

Albigensian (comparative more Albigensian, superlative most Albigensian)

more Albigensian (comparative)
most Albigensian (superlative)

of or relating to the heresy of Catharism, which first took hold in Albi, France


Albigensian

an adherent to Catharism, which first took hold in Albi, France


Bharatiya

Transliteration of Hindi भारतीय (bhārtīya),

translit

(chiefly India) Indian: a person nationally identified with the Republic of India.


transdimensional

en-adj

transdimensional (comparative more transdimensional, superlative most transdimensional)

more transdimensional (comparative)
most transdimensional (superlative)

(science fiction) Relating to a dimension other than those of the normal three-dimensional world


New Orleanian

Of, or relating to New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.


Rumanian

Alternative spelling of Romanian (Sometimes used to create a more Germanic feel in text (compare the German word Rumänisch).)


New Prussian

(rare) The modern reconstruction of the Old Prussian language, spoken by pilot communities in Lithuania, Poland, and elsewhere.


Koori

From Awabakal gurri; from the region of what is today Newcastle, adopted by indigenous people of other areas.

C. S. of Stawell wrote to ‘point out some facts associated with Aboriginal myths of Dreamtime’. He denied a Koori presence (‘no Aboriginals ever entered the Grampians due to evil spirits’) and repeated a dominant pioneer folk myth that the rock-art was painted by ‘a French artist who had a great appreciation of Aboriginal art of central Australia’.

1996, Sarah Nuttall, Text, Theory, Space: Post-Colonial Representations and Identity, page 175

Stories from the Koori oral tradition show how differently the shared experience is perceived by indigenous and settler Australians.

1998, Untold Stories: Memories and Lives of Victorian Kooris, page xix

Reliable population figures do not exist, but it [is] likely there were never large numbers: perhaps 18000 to 20000 Kooris across Victoria, perhaps 700 Wathaurong.

2009, Richard Everist, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula: The Spirit of Place, page 15

(Australian Aboriginal, Victoria, New South Wales) An indigenous Australian, especially one from Victoria or southern New South Wales.

Australian Aboriginal; Victoria; Australian Aboriginal; Victoria


Grecian

From Latin Graecia + -an. Compare Old French grecien and Middle English grecan, grecen, greken, grekin.

A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.


Zanzibari

of, or relating to Zanzibar or its inhabitants


Oklahoman

United States of America
United States of America

A native or resident of the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America.


Welshwoman

A woman who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.


Montenegrin

en-noun

Montenegrin (countable and uncountable, plural Montenegrins)

/ˌmɒntɪˈniːɡɹɪn/

From Italian montenegrino; equivalent to Montenegro + -ine.

(uncountable) The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken in Montenegro.

Montenegryns

the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian


Oceanian

From Oceania + -an.
(nation): This term is not used in the novel itself.

Although the proles are on the fringe both of Oceanian society and of the action, it is their values which provide the only warmth in the novel.

1993, Stephen Ingle, “Orwellian socialism today”, in George Orwell: A Political Life, Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, page 117

Orwell’s point was that the Oceanian government had effectively invented the idea of opposition in order to reinforce the status quo.

2009, Philip Bounds, Orwell and Marxism: The Political and Cultural Thinking of George Orwell, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd

The situation for Oceania, which appears as a significant space in the narrative, can be expressed as follows: Though the Party adopts a repressive dictatorship, it never accepts decentralized management so that Oceanian people do not feel colonial.

2018, Murat Kalelioğlu, “Semiotic Analysis”, in A Literary Semiotics Approach to the Semantic Universe of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, section “Spatialization”, page 111

(literary criticism) From or relating to the fictional nation of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).


Oceanian

In order to ensure that the Oceanians do get excited about Big Brother—displace, that is, eroticism from its natural object, another individual, to the State—the Party attempts in every way “to remove all pleasure from the sex act. . . . The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting operation, like having an enema” (p. 57).

1986, Bernard Oldsey, Joseph Browne, editors, Critical Essays on George Orwell, G. K. Hall & Co., page 74

We might suppose that Orwell’s claims about the beliefs of Oceanians are simply implausible: after all, as the little thought experiment I started with demonstrates, we cannot just make ourselves believe on command.

2018, Iskra Fileva, “Bad Faith and Make-Believe”, in Ezio Di Nucci, Stefan Storrie, editors, 1984 and Philosophy: Is Resistance Futile? (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 116), Open Court Publishing Company

Accordingly, the Ministry behaves in favor of the Party by making necessary amendments and manipulations in mass media to earn the sympathy of Oceanians.

2018, Murat Kalelioğlu, “Semiotic Analysis”, in A Literary Semiotics Approach to the Semantic Universe of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, section “George Orwell and “Nineteen Eighty-Four””, page 59

(literary criticism) Someone from the fictional nation of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).


Assyrian

From Assur, the original capital city of Assyria.

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Any Syriac language spoken by Assyrian peoples, particularly Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.

آشُورِيّ

any Syriac language spoken by Assyrian peoples


multidimensional

(science fiction, New Age religion) a being that exists in more than one dimension


Palauan

A language spoken in the Pacific, in the Republic of Palau. It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia belonging to the Western Austronesian group, all others considered to be members of the Oceanic subgroup.


Bihari

(uncountable) A group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Bihar and the surrounding states in India.


Shan

From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝／陕 (shǎn).

The Shan Pass: a mountain pass in Shanzhou, Henan, through which the Yellow River flows into the North China Plain.


Britisher

(India) The British colonial authorities; a European member of the British Raj, especially an officer from the colonial authorities.


Siberian

[saɪˈbɪəɹɪən]


Siberian

[saɪˈbɪəɹɪən]


Sumerian

/səˈmɪə.ɹɪ.ən/

(linguistics) The ancient language spoken in Sumer, a language isolate.


Roswell

en-proper noun

Roswell (countable and uncountable, plural Roswells)

Metathesized from Middle English Roweshill, from a contraction of either the Old English personal name Hrōþwulf or its Norman cognate Rolf, Rouf, Rou (in the genitive case, adding -es) + Old English hyll (“hill”).

A place in the United States:
A city in Fulton County, Georgia.

An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.

(1997) So go on with your life / Forget that Roswell crap / Show love to the black suit / 'Cuz that's the Men In … Black "Men in Black" by Will Smith (1997)

A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.

Among the cases he examined was an incident that has come to be known as England’s Roswell.

1998, Jim Wilson, “Six Unexplainable Encounters”, in Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 66

Kazantsev’s story was for some unaccountable reason taken seriously in the West, leading to some enthusiasts referring to Tunguska as the Russian Roswell.

2007, Rodney Castleden, Natural Disasters That Changed the World, Book Sales, page 272

Dubbed “Mexico’s Roswell,” the mid-air collision near Coyame of an airplane and a UFO has been the subject of a major documentary for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters series in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, and Websites.

2008, Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, Lulu.com, page 3

The most significant ufological event of a region.

Tuscarawas County
Tuscarawas County#English

A place in the United States:
A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.


Galwegian

en-adj

Galwegian (comparative more Galwegian, superlative most Galwegian)

more Galwegian (comparative)
most Galwegian (superlative)

/ɡɔːlˈwiːdʒən/

Of or pertaining to Galloway, Scotland, or to its historic people, language and culture.


Galwegian

/ɡɔːlˈwiːdʒən/


Brittish

Brittish (comparative more Brittish, superlative most Brittish)

more Brittish (comparative)
most Brittish (superlative)

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren.

1776, Thomas Jefferson, others, The [United States'] Declaration of Independence


Tokyoite

Tokyoite (comparative more Tokyoite, superlative most Tokyoite)

more Tokyoite (comparative)
most Tokyoite (superlative)

Of or relating to Tokyo, the capital of Japan.


Michigander

[ˈmɪ.ʃə.ˌɡæn.dɚ]

]
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, in a speech of July 27, 1848, as pejorative reference to Lewis Cass, Michigan politician:
: There is one entire article of the sort I have not discussed yet; I mean the military tale you Democrats are now engaged in dovetailing onto the great Michigander.
Ostensibly coined as a blend of Michigan + gander (“male goose, simpleton”) (punning on “tale” and “(dove)tail(ing)”). Alternatively from and/or later reanalyzed as Michigan + -d- (epenthetic) + -er (“resident of”).

blend

(US) A native or resident of the state of Michigan in the United States of America.


Galilean

Originated 1605–15 from Latin Galilaea, from Galilee + -an.


Moldovan

An inhabitant of the Republic of Moldova.


Moldovan

The dialect of Romanian spoken in the Republic of Moldova, which may be written in either the Cyrillic or the Roman alphabet.

The Romanian language (a name used primarily in Moldova).


Minneapolitan

en-adj

Minneapolitan (comparative more Minneapolitan, superlative most Minneapolitan)

more Minneapolitan (comparative)
most Minneapolitan (superlative)


Koepanger

From Koepang + -er, from the older spelling of Kupang, a city in West Timor.

1939, The Works of Ion L. Idriess
Up above, the tender kept a sharp eye on the Koepanger paying out the air-pipe, while attending to the life-line himself and the management of the lugger.

2004, William McGregor, The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia
Pidginised forms of English were also in use between whites and the other ethnic groups employed in the pearling industry, including Malays, Japanese, and Koepangers […]


Miao

With the help of KMT Miao representatives like Shi Honggui, Changsha drew up its plans for a permanent advance into the West: the Reconstruction Program of July 3, 1936, which called on the Miao people to learn Chinese, intermarry with the Han, and give up their traditional sacrifices, “undesirable marriage customs,” and “improper amusements.” The Miao were to be educated, but also pacified and culturally assimilated.

1987, Jeffrey C. Kinkley, “Fighting for Autonomy”, in The Odyssey of Shen Congwen, Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 239

The Miao peoples (including Hmong, Hmu, A-Hmao, Qo Xiong, etc.), an ethnic group of China and Vietnam speaking the Hmong-Mien language family.


LGM

little green man
little green man#English


Gaulish

From Old English Gallisċ, equivalent to Gaul + -ish. Doublet of Welsh.

Of or pertaining to the Celtic tribes speaking Gaulish languages.


little green man

en-noun

little green man (plural little green men)

[ˌlɪ.ɾɫ̩ ˈɡɹɪ̃i̯m ˌmɛ̃ə̯n̆]

[ˌlɪ.t͡ʔɫ̩ ˈɡɹɪ̃i̯m ˌmãn̆]

[ˌlɘ.ɾɯ ˈɡɹɘ̯ĩm ˌmɛ̞̃n̆]

կանաչ մարդուկ

humorous: space alien, Martian — see also alien

An engram is NOT [...] One of the little green men Americans claim have crashed in flying saucers.

1950 December 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 3, column 5

(chiefly science fiction) A conventional fictional alien from outer space in the form of a small humanoid with green skin.

(humorous) One of the supposed extraterrestrial occupants of UFOs.

These infamous little green men appeared during the decisive seizures or buildings and facilities, only to disappear when associated militias and local troops arrived to consolidate the gains. In this way they provided a measure of deniability—however superficial or implausible—for Moscow.⁴⁰

2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 43

The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶

2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393

The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.

2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for International Security and Cooperation

(geopolitics, euphemistic, usually in the plural) A soldier lacking identification as to create uncertainty around their allegiance (most notably seen with affiliation to the Russian Federation following associated campaigns 2014 in Ukraine).


Crimean

He also thought nothing of laying down a railway in a war zone. For example, he was one of those behind the Grand Crimean Central Railway, built during the Crimean War [...].

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57

Denoting, of, or related to Crimea, a peninsula on the north of the Black Sea, separating it from the Sea of Azov.


Arubian

en-adj

Arubian (comparative more Arubian, superlative most Arubian)

more Arubian (comparative)
most Arubian (superlative)


Westphalian

(linguistics) Of or pertaining to Westphalian Low German.

The long stagnation and despotism under the Chinese world order in East Asia before the late 19th century are thus pretentiously repackaged as China's alternative to the Western-dominated, Westphalian system of international relations.

2006 April 10, Fei-Ling Wang, “Heading off fears of a resurgent China”, in The New York Times

(politics) Of or pertaining to the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 which established a new system of political order in Central Europe, based on the concept of co-existing sovereign states.


Westphalian

One of the major dialect groups of West Low German spoken in Westphalia.

(geology, uncountable) A European phase of the upper Carboniferous period.


Quebecois

Quebecois (comparative more Quebecois, superlative most Quebecois)

more Quebecois (comparative)
most Quebecois (superlative)


Belarusan

Belarusan (comparative more Belarusan, superlative most Belarusan)

more Belarusan (comparative)
most Belarusan (superlative)


Bielorussian

Bielorussian (comparative more Bielorussian, superlative most Bielorussian)

more Bielorussian (comparative)
most Bielorussian (superlative)


Byelorussian

Byelorussian (comparative more Byelorussian, superlative most Byelorussian)

more Byelorussian (comparative)
most Byelorussian (superlative)

/ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃən/


Byelorussian

/ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃən/


Byelorussian

/ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃən/


Madagascan

Madagascan (comparative more Madagascan, superlative most Madagascan)

more Madagascan (comparative)
most Madagascan (superlative)


Mesoamerican

Mesoamerican (comparative more Mesoamerican, superlative most Mesoamerican)

more Mesoamerican (comparative)
most Mesoamerican (superlative)


Newfoundlander

[…] but so close lay the boats that even single hooks snarled, and Harvey found himself in hot argument with a gentle, hairy Newfoundlander on one side and a howling Portuguese on the other.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

A native or inhabitant of the island of Newfoundland.


Newfie

(Canada, informal, sometimes construed as pejorative) A native or inhabitant of the island of Newfoundland.


Earthican

Blend of Earth + American. Possibly popularized by the adult animated sitcom Futurama.

Fry: Well, if you're going to be Earthicans, we're going to have to teach you.

2001 April, “A Leela of Her Own”, in Futurama, season 4, episode 10

(nonstandard, humorous, science fiction) An inhabitant of planet Earth.


Russ

A diminutive of the male given name Russell.


foo fighter

From foo, either a nonce word or a corruption of the French word feu (“fire”), + fighter (“type of aircraft”).

unidentified flying object
unidentified flying object

Any of various unidentified flying objects, as reported by Allied pilots during World War II.


Utahn

This great honor, Mr. Harwood was the first Utahn to receive.

1901, Alice Merrill Horne, “State Exhibition of Art Fabrics”, in Improvement Era,, volume 5, number 1

No Utahn has ever sung his way into celebrity.

1926, Bernard De Voto, “Utah”, in American Mercury

A native or resident of the state of Utah in the United States of America.


Québécois

head

Québécois (plural Québécois, feminine Québécoise)

Québécois (plural)
Québécoise (feminine)

I am a proud Québécois.

A native or inhabitant of the province or city of Quebec.


angel hair

Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Italian capelli d'angelo.

sl

Angel hair consists of thin, cotton-like fibers that are found at the scene of UFO sightings. The strands look like spider webs (which many skeptics assert is precisely what they are) and have been found on houses, on the ground, in trees, and hanging off electrical wires following a UFO sighting.

2019, Stephen Spignesi, William J. Birnes, The Big Book of UFO Facts, Figures & Truth, Simon and Schuster

(ufology) A sticky, fibrous substance reported in connection with UFO sightings and other paranormal manifestations.


Goori

From Awabakal gurri as spoken in far northern New South Wales and south east Queensland, originally distinguished from Koori to the south. (See quotations for more information.)

1991, Joshua Aaron Fishman Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 279,
The availability and spread of an indigenous aggregative term for all Aborigines (Gooris/Kooris) is suggestive of a growing intergroup identity among them, over and above former and current ethnolinguistic demarcations. The term Goori/Kuri itself stems from the Southeastern coastal area, some 300 miles north of Sydney. Wurm and Hattori list ‘7?’ speakers for Kuri and ‘9??’ for the Yuin-Kuric grouping (10 dialects, all but three of which are extinct).

1996, Julie Janson, Gunjies, Act 2, Scene 3, in Black Mary and Gunjies: two plays, Aboriginal Studies Press, →ISBN, page 131,
JUNE: […] It’s born in you, your identity, I never lost mine. Goori spirituality, it’s always there. I was born with somethin’ […]

2002, John Henderson and David Nash, Language in Native Title, Aboriginal Studies Press, →ISBN, page 49,
While I do not have a lot of faith in the native title legislation's ability to deliver the goods for dispossessed and dislocated Goori communities like ours on the eastern seaboard, I am interested in how the process regards our languages in relation to claim hearings and judgements.

2006, Joshua Aaron Fishman, Nancy H. Hornberger, and Martin Pütz, Language Loyalty, Language Planning and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 144,
Thus, a brochure inviting Gooris (more usually ‘Kooris’, an increasingly popular indigenous self-designation applying to and uniting all Aborigines and favored by some as a collective term to replace Aborigine/Aboriginal) to participate in a series of six weekly seminars about Bundjalung, a language of Southeast Australia that is now down to its last few speakers, […]


Javan

A member or descendant of Java's main, Javanese ethno-linguistic group, by far the largest in Indonesia


Umbrian

Relating to Umbria or to its inhabitants or extinct language.

umbre

relating to Umbria or to its inhabitants or extinct language


Cairene

From Latin Cairenus, from Cairo + -nus (“-ene: forming related nouns”). Equivalent to Cairo + -ene.


Atlantean

With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear / The weight of mightiest Monarchies.

Of or like the Greek titan Atlas, who carries the heavens on his shoulders, as in Atlantean strength

1940, WHD Rouse, trans. of Nonnus, Dionysiaca
I [Elektra] shall pass from the earth to the stars’ Atlantean vault, and dwell in heaven

(figuratively) Of the celestial spheres carried by Atlas


Sumatran

From, or pertaining to, the island of Sumatra


tribelet

From tribe + -let. In use since at least 1925, the term was coined by anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber to refer to hundreds of groups of Native Americans in Central California, and has since been employed by many anthropologists to denote California groups of native people.

Kroeber’s emphasis on the small scale of indigenous California social organizations led him to attach the diminutive "-let" to the anthropologically normative term "tribe".

1994, Leventhal et. al., Back from Extinction, "The Ohlone: Past and Present Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Region." Ballena Press Publication, page 299–300

The second feature, dialectic separateness, of course is an old story for California, but elsewhere in the state each idiom is usually common to a considerable number of tribelets or "village communities."

1925, Kroeber, Alfred L. Handbook of the Indians of California. Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology: Bulletin No. 78, page 474

The larger tribelets usually had several permanent villages.

1978, Richard Levy, “Costanoan”, in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 8 (California)

Tribelet […] defined a political and geographical unit comprising several units, usually including a principal and most powerful central village, tied by relations of kinship.

1994, Leventhal et. al., ‘’Back from Extinction’’, ibid., page 299-300

A small tribe of Native Americans, especially a small independent group of Native California people who shared a language and usually comprised one principal village, or several in close proximity, plus smaller resource-gathering camps and territories.


Manxwoman

...the rising inflexion in her voice which made the talk of the true Manxwoman the sweetest thing in the world to listen to.


Manxman

Potatoes and herrings, Mr. Christian; just a Manxman’s supper.

The Manxman is never wise until the day after the fair. (Traditional Manx saying).

2005, John Ayto, Ian Crofton, Brewer's Britain and Ireland, page 587


Minnesotan

A native or resident of the state of Minnesota in the United States of America.


Manitoban

A native or inhabitant of Manitoba, Canada.


Ontarian

A native or inhabitant of Ontario, Canada


New Brunswicker

en-noun

New Brunswicker (plural New Brunswickers)

A native or inhabitant of New Brunswick, Canada.


Prince Edward Islander

Prince Edward Islander (plural Prince Edward Islanders)

Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island

A native or inhabitant of Prince Edward Island, Canada.


Carthaginian

/ˌkɑɹθəˈd͡ʒɪniən/

/ˌkɑːθəˈd͡ʒɪniən/

Latin carthāginiānus, from Carthāgō + -iānus.


Saskatchewanian

A native or inhabitant of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.


Nova Scotian

A native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia, Canada.


British Columbian

British Columbian (plural British Columbians)

A native or inhabitant of British Columbia, Canada.


Quebecker

(Canada) Alternative spelling of Quebecer


Yukoner

A native or inhabitant of the Yukon Territory, Canada.


Quebecer

A native or inhabitant of Quebec City, in the province of Quebec.


Montrealer

A native or inhabitant of the city of Montreal.


Maxonian

Coined to identify a group of alumni of King's School, Macclesfield at Oxford University as a blend of Macclesfield + Oxonian, which was then applied to residents of the town in general.

As a fellow Macclesfieldian — or Maxonian as one was inexplicably called — I was fascinated to read the whole factual story of St Peter's Working Men's Institute, whose weekly affairs I used to report, all unknowing, in the days of bicycle clips and wet macs.

1967, New Society, volume 9, numbers 236-248, page 892

My thanks to my friends Clifford and Pauline Baillie, true Maxonians both, who helped me with local colour and phrases.

1992, Jan Webster, Bluebell Blue, page viii

One born-and-bred Maxonian, now living around High Street, proffered a cognate observation about the plight of those 'stuck' on Moss Rose

2005, Evi Girling, Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town


Seychellois

Someone from the Seychelles, or of Seychellois descent.

Seychellees

Someone from the Seychelles of Seychellois descent


Teuton

PIE word
 *tewtéh₂
Attested since 1720, from Latin Teutonēs, Teutonī (“the Teutons”) (cf. Ancient Greek Τεύτονες (Teútones)), a Germanic or Celtic tribe that inhabited a coastal area in today's Germany and devastated Gaul between 113 and 101 BCE. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”), from which come:
* Proto-Germanic *þeudō (“people”)
** Old English þēod (“nation, people, country, language”), Middle English thede
** Proto-Germanic *þeudanaz (“ruler, leader of the people”)
*** Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽𐍃 (þiudans, “king”)
*** Old Norse þjóðann (“prince, king”)
*** Old Saxon þiudan (“lord of the people, ruler”)
*** Old English þēoden (“king, lord”)
** Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people or tribe”)
*** English Dutch
*** German deutsch
* Proto-Celtic *toutā
** Old Irish túath)
* Persian توده (tôda, tude, “heap, masses, people, folk”)
* Proto-Slavic *ťuďь (“foreign, strange”)
** Russian чужо́й (čužój, “stranger”), чудно (čudno, “strange”), чу́до (čúdo, “miracle”)

cog

The difference between the Clergy and the Teuton conquerors was more than a difference of creed, or of civilization. It was an actual difference of race. They were Romans, to whom the Teuton was a savage, speaking a different tongue, obeying different laws, his whole theory of the universe different from the Roman.

1864, Charles Kingsley, The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, page 220

We have noted that the Teutonic layer of European barbarians, unlike the Celtic layer, resisted the disintegrating action of Hellenism to such effect that the Teutons were able to take their place in the external proletariat of the Hellenic World and to dispatch the Hellenic Society in its death agonies with the coup de grâce.

1946, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, A Study of History, volume 1, page 153

Some fifteen hundred years ago, the Teuton tribes of Northern Europe held an annual ceremony.[…]We can't presume to understand all that this specific ritual meant to the Teutons nor precisely what their expectations might have been.

2007, Judika Illes, Pure Magic: A Complete Course in Spellcasting, page 8

What he imagined the social order and the experience of the Teutons actually to have been, and why this lost world should represent an ideal, is, it must be said, hard to discover. His pronouncements on the Teutons of the Dark Ages are decidedly sparse.

2012, Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life, page 271

(historical) A member of an early Germanic tribe living in Jutland noted in historical writings by Greek and Roman authors.


Olympian

From Late Latin Olympianus (“Olympic”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, or forming agent nouns). Olympianus is derived from Latin Olympia (“town in Elis, Greece, where the ancient Olympic Games were held”) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Olympia is from Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ (Olumpíā, “Olympia”), from Ὀλῠ́μπῐος (Olúmpios, “of or pertaining to Mount Olympus; living on Mount Olympus, Olympian; (specifically) Zeus”) or Ὄλῠμπος (Ólumpos, “Mount Olympus”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
As regards noun sense 1 (“inhabitant of the city of Olympia, Washington, United States”), the city was named after the Olympic Mountains which are visible to the northwest, which in turn were named after Mount Olympus in Greece.

олимпиец

sportsperson competing in the ancient or modern Olympic Games

олимпи́йка

rare; generally used to mean a sports sweatshirt with a zip

An inhabitant of the city of Olympia, the capital of Washington, United States.


Virgin Islander

en-noun

Virgin Islander (plural Virgin Islanders)


milab

1996, Helmut Lammer Ph.D. Preliminary Findings Of Project MILAB: Evidence For Military Kidnappings Of Alleged UFO Abductees published at The Alien Jigsaw, Mind Control Forums and on many other web sites.
Recently, some UFO abductees have reported that they have also been kidnapped by military intelligence personnel (MILAB) and taken to hospitals and/or military facilities, some of which are described as being underground.

1999, A letter from Dr. Helmut Lammer of the Austrian Space Agency to Dr. Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project, published in Greer, Steven M. Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications. Crossing Point Inc, →ISBN, page 8.
I will send you today a copy of the MILAB (Military Abductions) manuscript for review.

Military Abductions (MILABS)
Abductions conducted by members of the U.S. military for the purposes of either learning what happened to real alien abductees or as part of a military or CIA "mind control" program.

2004, Encyclopedic entry in William J. Birnes The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Single-Volume UFO Reference in Print, Pocket Books, page 215

Whatever the answer might be, the idea of military involvement in abductions became a standard feature of the abduction scenario by the mid-1990s and, like the subject of implants, became a specialized focus for an on-going study by a small group of ufologists who formed Project MILAB.

2003, Brenda Denzler, The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs, University of California Press, page 62

A deceitful military operation performed to convince the targets of the operation that they have had an encounter with extraterrestrial beings, though it is actually a staged ploy.


military abduction

military abduction (plural military abductions)

1996 Helmut Lammer Ph.D. Preliminary Findings Of Project MILAB: Evidence For Military Kidnappings Of Alleged UFO Abductees published at The Alien Jigsaw, Mind Control Forums and on many other web sites.
Recently, some UFO abductees have reported that they have also been kidnapped by military intelligence personnel (MILAB) and taken to hospitals and/or military facilities, some of which are described as being underground.

1999 A letter from Dr. Helmut Lammer of the Austrian Space Agency to Dr. Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project, published in Greer, Steven M. Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications. Crossing Point Inc, →ISBN, page 8.
I will send you today a copy of the MILAB (Military Abductions) manuscript for review.

2004 Encyclopedic entry in William J. Birnes The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Single-Volume UFO Reference in Print, Pocket Books, page 215

A deceitful military operation performed to convince the targets of the operation that they have had an encounter with extraterrestrial beings which is actually a staged ploy


Majorcan

en-adj

Majorcan (comparative more Majorcan, superlative most Majorcan)

more Majorcan (comparative)
most Majorcan (superlative)


Murcian

A dialect of the Spanish language spoken in Murcia.


Navarrese

/ˌnævəˈɹiːz/


Valencian

One of the standard varieties of the Catalan language spoken primarily in Valencia.


Leonese

A Romance language spoken in the northwest of Spain, closely related to Asturian and Mirandese.


Andalusian

A horse of a breed from the Iberian Peninsula, with long, thick mane and tail.

Pure race espagnole

(uncountable) The dialect (or varieties) of Spanish spoken in Andalusia; Andalusian Spanish.


septal

[…] and in Ireland it so happened, that these four families emerged victorious out of the septal struggles.

1878, Standish James O'Grady, History of Ireland: The Heroic Period, volume 1, page 46

(relational) Relating to an Irish clan or sept.


Jerusalemite

I say this because, according to the old Jerusalemites, the building blocks of the world and its inhabitants were formed of the alphabet at the back of God's tongue when He pronounced the world […].

2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13

Thousands of Jerusalemites gathered on the battl4ements to gawp at this show, admiring 'the beauty of their armour and admirable order of the men.'


Winnipegger

/ˈwɪnəˈpɛɡəɹ/

When a Winnipegger gets his wagon stuck in one of them, he loosens the traces and lets the horses scramble out; and then, pulling off his clothes, goes in to extricate the vehicle, which, by the skillful use of ropes, he usually accomplishes.

1880 May, “The Red River of the North”, in Harper's, volume 60, number 360, page 814

Our tears were shed on behalf of the Winnipegger who has himself photographed in the shaggy buffalo coat.

A citizen of Albert Lea, Minn., calls himself an Albert Lean; . . . one of Winnipeg, Man., is a Winnipegger.

1948, H. L. Mencken, “What the People of American Towns Call Themselves”, in American Speech, vol 23 no 3/4 (Oct-Dec)

The 19-year-old Winnipegger just signed his first pro hockey contract, a three-year deal with the Colorado Avalanche.

2007 May 11, Paul Friesen, “Wheat King crowned”, in Winnipeg Sun

A native or resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.


Ottawan

A native or inhabitant of Ottawa, the capital city of Canada.


Edmontonian

(uncountable) A North American faunal stage occurring during the late Cretaceous.


Alaskan

A native or resident of the state of Alaska in the United States of America.


Alabaman

Alabaman (comparative more Alabaman, superlative most Alabaman)

more Alabaman (comparative)
most Alabaman (superlative)


sub-Saharan

Coordinate term: super-Saharan

Of or pertaining to that part of Africa which lies south of the Sahara Desert.

անդրսահարյան

pertaining to that part of Africa south of the Sahara


Samogitian

Wiktionary’s coverage of Samogitian terms


Cymric

From Welsh Cymru (“Wales”) + -ic (“forming adjectives”). Doublet of Cumbric and cognate with English Cambrian and Cymry.

(rare) Synonym of Welsh, the language of the Welsh people.


Cymric

Manx cat

the original, short-haired version of the breed

A breed of domestic cat, developed in Canada, principally characterized by suppression of the tail and by a semi-long-haired coat, with a medium-sized, rounded, cobby body; it is the longhair version of the Manx cat.

(rare) Synonym of Walian: a Welsh person, a Welshman or Welshwoman.


Cymric

Synonym of Welsh: of or related to Wales, the Welsh people, or the Welsh language.


Rus

en-proper noun

Rus (countable and uncountable, plural Rus)

Earlier form Russ from German Russe etc., from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). More recent use influenced by Russian Русь (Rusʹ), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Use with macron was probably influenced by the transliteration of Arabic رُوس (rūs).
Compare Russ, Russian, Russie, Russniak, Rusyn, Ruthenian.
Also compare Swedish Ryss, Dutch Rus, German Russe, French Russe, Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs), Russian Русь (Rusʹ), Belarusian Русь (Rusʹ), Ukrainian Русь (Rusʹ). Also compare Russian ру́сский (rússkij, “Ethnic Russian, of Rus”), россия́нин (rossijánin, “Russian national”), Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”).
See further Etymology of Rus and derivatives.

Ռուսիա

any of the medieval East Slavic principalities

Kievan Rus', the medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was in Kiev.


Caledonian

A native or inhabitant of Caledonia; a Scot.

Someone from the ancient Celtic tribe (or group of tribes) called Caledonians, in Scotland


Earther

(science fiction) A person from planet Earth.


Earthian

I inquired of one prominent Earthian: "What's of constructing ships and buildings...?"

1940. America: A Catholic Review of the Week, America Press: 1940, page 420

I most likely will be the second Earthian to reach that planet. ...

1955. Fantastic Universe: Science Fiction, Great American Publications, 1955, page 41


Earthian

According to Fodor's definition, it follows that 'water' in Twin Earthian means XYZ and not H2O.

1997. Diego Marconi. Lexical Competence. MIT Press: 1997, page 102

I thought the females spoke Earthian to you. Improving their Earthian was why they asked for a couple.

2004. Sheri S. Tepper. The Companions. HarperCollins: 2004, page 79

(science fiction, rare) A universal language spoken on Earth.


Earthan

(rare, science fiction, nonstandard) A person or thing from planet Earth; an Earthling.


Jingpho

The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Kachin State, Myanmar, and also in China.


sophont

From Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + ὤν (ṓn, “on”), present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “being, existing, essence”). First used in the 1966 works by Poul Anderson, coined by his wife Karen Anderson.

Likewise with the psychology of intelligent species. Most sophonts indeed possess basic instincts which diverge more or less from man's. With those of radically alien motivations we have little contact.

I'm honored to meet a sophont of the Soro line in person!

Evil, they argued, could only have meaning on smaller scales, in the hurt that one sophont does to another.

1992, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, Tor Books, page 406

Only one sophont appeared to be involved—and not a sophisticated one.

1997, Spider Robinson, Lifehouse, Baen Books, page 2

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(chiefly science fiction) An intelligent being; a being with a base reasoning capacity roughly equivalent to or greater than that of a human being. The word does not apply to machines unless they have true artificial intelligence, rather than mere processing capacity.


Pecheneg

/ˈpɛt͡ʃənɛɡ/

Borrowed from Russian печене́г (pečenég).

The Pechenegs had already ceased to be a major threat by the time Kievan Rus’ converted to Christianity in 988, and most references to them in the chronicle are in the period before this, earlier in the tenth century.

1987, Charles J. Halperin, Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History, Indiana University Press, page 13

One of the earliest Arab geographers who referred to the Pechenegs in south-eastern Europe was al-Iṣṭakhrī (circa 950).

1993, Harry Thirlwall Norris, Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society Between Europe and the Arab World, University of South Carolina Press, page 26

The siege of Dristra failed, as the emperor found himself surrounded by the Pechenegs.[…]Fearing a Cuman–Pecheneg alliance, Alexios immediately sued for peace and the Pechenegs agreed to a truce, which they immediately broke in order to take advantage of Alexios' notorious lack of troops and invade Thrace.

2006, Florin Curta, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Cambridge University Press, page 301

(historical) A member of a specific semi-nomadic Turkic people from central Asia, some of whom migrated into eastern Europe.


Pecheneg

/ˈpɛt͡ʃənɛɡ/

[…]these loanwords are later borrowings from the Pecheneg and Comanian, respectively.

1991, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, Volume 7, Peter de Ridder Press, page 286

(historical) The now extinct Turkic language spoken by the Pechenegs.


Pecheneg

/ˈpɛt͡ʃənɛɡ/

Of or relating to the Pecheneg people or their language.

печенек

of or relating to the Pecheneg people or their language


Bordelais

en-adj

Bordelais (comparative more Bordelais, superlative most Bordelais)

more Bordelais (comparative)
most Bordelais (superlative)


Bordelais

A native or inhabitant of Bordeaux in France.


Niçois

Niçois (comparative more Niçois, superlative most Niçois)

more Niçois (comparative)
most Niçois (superlative)


Niçois

[La Remembrança Nissarda] runs weekly lessons in the Niçois language and chants niçois (traditional Niçois songs and chants), and cultural workshops on Niçois history, carnival traditions and cuisine nissarde (local cooking).

2007, Nicola Williams, Catherine Le Nevez, Provence & the Côte d'Azur

The dialect of Occitan spoken in the Nice area.


Marseillais

Marseillais (comparative more Marseillais, superlative most Marseillais)

more Marseillais (comparative)
most Marseillais (superlative)


Marseillais

Where ordinary Frenchmen were divided, the Marseillais were united.

2008, Nicholas Woodsworth, Seeking Provence: Old Myths, New Paths

A native or inhabitant of Marseille in France.


Kentuckian

During the Civil War, many Kentuckians found themselves fighting their own family members.

A native or resident of the state of Kentucky in the United States of America.


Antarctican

...the easy-going good nature and “she’s right, mate,” attitude of the genuine Australian is a simple but practical outlook which could well be copied by many future Antarcticans.

1956, Antarctic, New Zealand Antarctic Society

We were not the only Antarcticans flying early this 1958-59 season. Soviet scientists across the icecap were planning an over-snow traverse toward the South Pole and wanted to survey the route by air.

1959, The National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Society, page 541

The Antarcticans sense that life must be asserted here. It cannot draw back before these wastes, but must subdue them if only to demonstrate its viability.

1965, Richard S. Lewis, “A Continent for Science”, in The Antarctic Adventure, Viking Press, page 258

I’m an Antarctican; I can sleep on the ground.

1987, Michael Parfit, South Light: A Journey to the Last Continent, Collier Books, page 273

You should also have little trouble finding some glacier ice for your whiskey; many Antarcticans enjoy sipping their Scotch on very old rocks!

2005, Jeff Rubin et al., Antarctica, Lonely Planet, page 81

(sometimes humorous) One who has spent time in Antarctica, especially a scientist or researcher.


Sicani

(historical) An ancient people of Sicily and parts of Italy.


Filipina

From Spanish filipina f (feminine form of filipino).

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(countable) A female citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines, or one descending from such.

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A female native or inhabitant of the Philippines

(obsolete, historical, countable) A female Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent.


Filipina

Of or pertaining to female inhabitants of the Philippines.

פיליפינית

Of or pertaining to female natives or inhabitants of the Philippines


Bosniak

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Bòšnjāk (“Bosniak”), from Bȍsna (“Bosnia”). Equivalent to Bosniac: Bosnia+-ac.

A person typically characterized by their ties to the Bosnian historical region, traditional adherence to Islam, and common culture and language.

bosniakki

a person with ties to Bosnia, traditional adherence to Islam, and common culture and language


Ligurian

An ancient Proto-Indo-European language spoken by the Ligures.


Kartvelian

Borrowed from Georgian ქართველი (kartveli) + -ian.

A member of a group of related peoples in the South Caucasus, namely Georgians, Svans, Mingrelians and Laz.


Pelasgian

From Ancient Greek Πελασγός (Pelasgós) + -ian, presumably based on a Pre-Greek ethnonym. Compare Egyptian pwrꜣsꜣtj, an ethnonym listed as one of the Sea Peoples attacking Egypt around 1190 BCE.

1869, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, New Series, Volume 1, Ethnological Society of London, Trübner and Co. page 324,
Pelasgian, therefore, is regarded by him as convertible with Illyrian, and that with Gueg, subject to modifications of Tosk and relations therewith.

[…]Malte-Brun described Pelasgian as a primitive version of Greek, and distinguished it from Illyrian, which he regarded as a branch of the Thracian language.

2002, Noel Malcolm, “Myths of Albanian National Identity”, in Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Bernd Jürgen Fischer, editors, Albanian Identities, Indiana University Press, page 76


Veronese

en-adj

Veronese (comparative more Veronese, superlative most Veronese)

more Veronese (comparative)
most Veronese (superlative)

Of, from or relating to the city of Verona.


Oaxacan

Unsurprisingly, the Oaxacan cheese steak sandwich contains jalapeno peppers.

Relating to, or from, the Mexican state of Oaxaca.


Oaxacan

A native or inhabitant of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.


Kievan

From Kiev + -an, from Russian Ки́ев (Kíjev).

Of or associated with the city of Kyiv (the capital city of Ukraine).

(historical) Of or associated with the city of Kiev, especially when referring to the medieval period (c. 880–c. 1150) when the city dominated the East Slavic lands which today are Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.


East Indian

East Indian (comparative more East Indian, superlative most East Indian)

more East Indian (comparative)
most East Indian (superlative)

From East Indies + -ian. May also be analyzed as east + Indian.

Of or pertaining to the people, products, or culture of Southeast Asia, particularly the Malay Archipelago, Sri Lanka, or India.

(Canada, Caribbean) Of or pertaining to the people, products, or culture of India, or South Asia in general.


East Indian

A native or inhabitant of the Malay Archipelago, Sri Lanka, or India.


Trinidadian

Of, from, or pertaining to Trinidad or to the people or language of that country.

trinidadien

of, from, or pertaining to Trinidad or to the people or language of that country


nonhuman

nonhuman animals

nonhuman agents


Rhode Islander

A native or resident of the state of Rhode Island in the United States of America.


South Dakotan

A native or resident of the state of South Dakota in the United States of America.


Vermonter

Vermont Central—Central Vermont. By Edward Hungerford, David W. Sargent, Jr., Lawrence Doherty and Charles E. Fisher, Boston, Massachusetts: The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Inc., Baker Library, Harvard Business School. [...] These natural obstacles increased the difficulty of providing transport, but the intrepid Vermonters determined to have a railway linking the Great Lakes with Boston, independent of New York—and they achieved it.

1943 March and April, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 126

But April is a whimsical month when Vermonters and Hampshirites alike are disposed to antic adventures such as trekking to Boston to get married or to New York to see the sights.

1959, Charles Morrow Wilson, The Magnificent Scufflers: Revealing the Great Days when America Wrestled the World, Stephen Greene Press, page 60

A native or resident of the state of Vermont in the United States of America.


Kansan

A native or resident of the state of Kansas in the United States of America.


Iowan

A native or resident of the state of Iowa in the United States of America.


Tennesseean

An inhabitant or a resident of the state of Tennessee.


Missourian

Missouran

used especially by those who pronounce the state's name /məˈzɝə/ rather than /mɨˈzɝi/

A native or resident of the state of Missouri in the United States of America.


Idahoan

A native or resident of the state of Idaho in the United States of America.


North Dakotan

A native or resident of the state of North Dakota in the United States of America.


Dakotan

An inhabitant or a resident of the state of North Dakota or South Dakota.


Nebraskan

A native or resident of the state of Nebraska in the United States of America.


Arizonan

There is a great value and even a life lesson in the story of a native Arizonan.

2009 May 21, Stephen Des Georges, “Oral history class preserves history, promotes community”, in Arizona State University

Many Arizonans speak Navajo.

A native or resident of the state of Arizona in the United States of America.


Washingtonian

Any real Washingtonian will be quick to tell you that "Washington state" is a university.

A native or resident of the state of Washington in the United States of America.


New Hampshirite

en-noun

New Hampshirite (plural New Hampshirites)

Wentworth may have been an employee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but he lived in New Hampshire and was a devoted New Hampshirite.

2006, Fletcher Haulley, A Primary Source History of the Colony of New Hampshire, page 35

A native or resident of the state of New Hampshire in the United States of America.


East Berliner

(dated, historical) A resident of East Berlin.


Galatian

/ɡəˈleɪ.ʃən/

A member of an ancient Celtic tribe from Galatia (now part of Turkey)


Southern European

Southern European (plural Southern Europeans)

A Southern European person; one who comes from or lives in Southern Europe.


Northern European

Northern European (plural Northern Europeans)

A Northern European person; one who comes from or lives in Northern Europe.


Welsher

(rare, obsolete) Synonym of Walian: a Welsh person, a Welshman or Welshwoman.


Eastern European

Eastern European (plural Eastern Europeans)

An Eastern European person; one who comes from or lives in Eastern Europe.


Western European

Western European (plural Western Europeans)

A Western European person; one who comes from or lives in Western Europe.


Central European

Central European (plural Central Europeans)

From Central Europe + -ean, or central + European.

Central Europeans also have in their heads a number of different historical maps and milestones that are not particularly well known outside the region or necessarily respected by their neighbors, and they still regularly use them as points of orientation.

1996, Lonnie R. Johnson, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, page 5

Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, and Slovene national elites have tried desperately to prove that their countries do not belong to the "East"; that they are, indeed, Central Europeans.

2003, Ivan T. Berend, History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, page xiii

A Central European person; one who comes from or lives in Central Europe.


Emirati

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

Of, from, or pertaining to the United Arab Emirates.

إِمَارَاتِيّ

of, from, or pertaining to United Arab Emirates


Emirati

A person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United Arab Emirates.

A person descended ethnically from the Arab people of the United Arab Emirates.


Elysian

Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
Sebastiaen Vrancx

From Latin Elysium (from Ancient Greek Ἠλύσιον (Ēlúsion, “Elysium; an Elysian Field; one of the Elysian Fields”)) + -an (adjective-forming suffix).

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Departed spirits do not however make a joyful and immediate entrance into these elysian fields, but must first slide for the space of five days, or, according to others, for a still longer period, down a rough rock, which the Greenlanders, by a strange contradiction, represent to be quite bloody.

1826, John Frederick Dennett, “The Second Voyage of Captain Parry”, in The Voyages and Travels of Captains Parry, Franklin, Ross, and Mr. Belzoni; Forming an Interesting History of the Manners, Customs, and Characters of Various Nations, Visited by Enterprising Travellers, London: Published by J. Jacques and W. Wright, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 246

But everyone that has lived a wicked life on earth, committed murder in his own nation, or been guilty of suicide, must pass by a different route to the Elysian fields. He has a steep precipice to climb, which gives him much pain and trouble; […]

1897, Alexander Henry, David Thompson, “Ethnography of Fort Vermilion”, in Elliott Coues, editor, New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry, Fur Trader of the Northwest Company and of David Thompson, Official Geographer of the Same Company 1799–1814: Exploration and Adventure among the Indians on the Red, Saskatchewan, Missouri and Columbia Rivers … In Three Volumes, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Francis P. Harper, →OCLC, part II (The Saskatchewan and Columbia Rivers), page 529

Of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location.


Afghanistani

An inclusive term used for all inhabitants of Afghanistan versus Afghan which is an ethnonym.


Quadi

(historical) A member of an ancient Germanic people who lived in Moravia.


cereology

From Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”) + -ology.

suffix

[…] the array of experts who have collaborated to found the Centre for Crop Circle Studies and co-author The Crop Circle Enigma, the parents of cereology […]

1990 October–December, New Scientist, volume 128, London: New Science Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61

The result of all this has been to throw the world of cereology into a state of total confusion. All its previous certainties have been demolished.

1991, “Editorial notes”, in The Cereologist: The Journal for Crop Circles Studies, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: The Cereologist, OCLC 877349523, page 5; quoted in Gordon Stein, “Crop Circles”, in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996, ISBN 978-1-57392-021-6, page 185, column 1

Saucer enthusiasts argued that the cropland patterns marked the landing spots of UFOs bearing visitors from space. Believers in the paranormal claimed the circles radiated mysterious energy forces. The patterns spawned a kind of intellectual cottage industry: no fewer than 35 Britons claim to be experts on the phenomenon. A new scientific discipline, cereology, emerged. It is practiced by members of the Circles Effect Research Unit, a privately funded group headed by Wiltshire-based physicist Terence Meaden.

1991 September 23, Leon Jaroff, “It happens in the best circles”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-11-11

The world needed to be educated about the mysteries of cereology, and that knowledge base had not been disseminated widely enough for my more "unusual" theories to be accepted, or at least considered, with reason and open-mindedness.

2003, Colin Andrews, Stephen J. Spignesi, “The Path”, in Crop Circles: Signs of Contact, Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Books, page 29, column 1

The investigation, or practice, of creating crop circles.


Berliner

The first sense is either from German Berliner (“native or inhabitant of Berlin”) or formed in English from Berlin + -er. The second sense is from German Berliner (“doughnut”).


Scythian

The Eastern Iranian language of Scythians.


Cytherean

/ˌsɪ.ðəˈɹi.ən/

From Cythera, from Ancient Greek Κύθηρα (Kúthēra) + -an.

This view, that we see only a Cytherean cloud-canopy, has been confirmed by M. Landerer's observation of the non-polarised character of the light reflected by the crescent Venus; [...]

1893, Agnes M. Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century, page 314

But we should hesitate in assuming that the cytherean skies are usually overcast, for the reason that if the greater heat stimulates evaporation, the converse process of precipitation would be slackened for the same reason.

1898, E. M. Antoniadi, “Notes on the Rotation Period of Venus”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 63, page 319

long before we landed spacecraft on Venus scientists deduced the temperature of the cytherean surface by studying Venus's radio emission.

1989, Jay M. Pasachoff, Astronomy, from the earth to the universe, 5, page 171

In fact, Soviet astronomers once thought that the thick, dense Cytherean atmosphere might not let any sunlight reach the surface.

1991, Kenneth R. Lang, Charles Allen Whitney, Wanderers in space: exploration and discovery in the solar system, page 78

(uncommon) Of or pertaining to the planet Venus; Venusian.


Rhodesian

“Take it easy, Tahm-boo,” your boss says, her Rhodesian accent returning inexplicably.

2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 289

From, pertaining, or relating to Rhodesia or its people or culture.


Indochinese

(dated or historical) Of or pertaining to Indochina or its culture or people.


Pacific Islander

en-noun

Pacific Islander (plural Pacific Islanders)

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A person who resides in or originates from Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Niue, Cook Islands or any other Pacific island.


Papua New Guinean

Papua New Guinean (plural Papua New Guineans)

Citizen of Papua New Guinea or of Papua New Guinean descent.

Papoea-Nieu-Guinees

citizen of Papua New Guinea or of Papua New Guinean descent


Eridian

(science fiction) a theoretical inhabitant of the dwarf planet Eris


French Guianese

Of, from, or pertaining to French Guiana or the French Guianese people.


Moravian

en-adj

Moravian (comparative more Moravian, superlative most Moravian)

more Moravian (comparative)
most Moravian (superlative)

Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Morava river in Czech Republic, Europe.

Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Morava river in Serbia, Europe.


Moravian

A group of Slavic dialects spoken in the Moravia region, considered by some linguists to compose a language separate from Czech.


Gibraltarian

The dialect spoken in Gibraltar, a mix of British English and Andalusian Spanish.


Alabamian

Sunday was the day of the week most Alabamians wanted off for the two holy acts—going to church and watching football.

2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 24

A native or resident of the state of Alabama in the United States of America.


Kosovar

Kosovar (comparative more Kosovar, superlative most Kosovar)

more Kosovar (comparative)
most Kosovar (superlative)


Kosovan

Kosovan (comparative more Kosovan, superlative most Kosovan)

more Kosovan (comparative)
most Kosovan (superlative)

From, of, or pertaining to Kosovo or its people, culture or language.


Kalamazooan

One who resides in or comes from Kalamazoo.


Japanner

Of the interior of the apartment we occupied, I shall say but little; that little, however, will help to complete the description of a Japanner's dwelling.

1868, William Dalton, Will Adams, the first Englishman in Japan: a romantic biography, page 39


Patagonian

Patagonian (comparative more Patagonian, superlative most Patagonian)

more Patagonian (comparative)
most Patagonian (superlative)

/ˌpætəˈɡəʊni.ən/

Of or pertaining to Patagonia or its people, language or culture.


Zealander

(informal) A resident or inhabitant of New Zealand; a New Zealander.


Rhean

1978, American Geophysical Union, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, University of Michigan,
The central peaks of Rhean craters appear to be larger with respect to crater size than for lunar and Mercurian craters.

(astronomy) Of, or pertaining to Rhea, a moon of Saturn.


Callistoan

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Callisto


Titanian

As whom the fables name of monstrous size, / Titanian or earth-born, that warred on Jove,

if Trafton's (1972) detection of Titanian H₂ is correct, ...

1974, McDonough & Brice, "The Saturnian 'Gas-Doughnut' Hypothesis", in A. Woszczyk, ed., Exploration of the Planetary System, p 484

The Titanian atmosphere consists predominantly of nitrogen gas, with only a few percent methane, the simplest organic molecule.

2006, Kevin W. Plaxco, Michael Gross, Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 238

(astronomy) Of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.

the yin and the yang, or the Oberonic and the Titanian

2002, Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography, page 387

an isolated colony of Uranus' moon Titania, one of the diminishing vestiges of the Titanian Empire

1985, Piers Anthony, Bio of a Space Tyrant, vol. 3: Politician

(astronomy) Of Titania, the largest moon of Uranus.


Titanian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Titan (the Saturnian moon) or of Titania


Europan

(astronomy) Pertaining to Europa, a minor planet in the Main Asteroid Belt, or any (theoretical/fictional) inhabitants of the minor planet Europa.


Europan

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the astronomical body Europa (either the moon of Jupiter or the minor planet of the Main Asteroid Belt).


Soviet

From Russian сове́т (sovét), сове́тский (sovétskij).

The major obstacle to a border settlement is the status of Heixiazi, a 330-square kilometer island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. The island is claimed by the Chinese but controlled by the USSR. Because Heixiazi overlooks Khabarovsk as well as the point where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Amur River, the Soviets are reluctant to give it up.

1991, Donald S. Zagoria, “The Changing Role of the Soviet Union in the Pacific”, in Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin F. Laird, editors, Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 678

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.


Mesopotamian

Formed as Mesopotamia + -an. Compare the French mésopotamien.

Mesopotamian marshlands return to life as they become officially recognised as Iraq’s first national park.

2013 Autumn, Veronique Mistiaen, “Iraq’s first national park approved” (main, front-page article) in Positive News, issue 77, page 1, sub-headline


Tritonian

(Greek mythology) Of or pertaining to the classical Greek god Triton.


Marylander

A native or resident of the state of Maryland in the United States of America.


Papuan

Papuan (comparative more Papuan, superlative most Papuan)

more Papuan (comparative)
most Papuan (superlative)

From, or pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea

Pertaining to the Papuan group of languages.


Papuan

A geographical grouping of languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and its neighboring islands, as opposed to Austronesian.


Smithereen

From the name of the city, after Sir A. W. Smithers (1850–1924), chairman of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Influenced by smithereens?

(Canada) A native of Smithers, British Columbia.


Bremer

Borrowed from German Bremer, equivalent to Brem(en) + -er.


Czechoslovak

Czechoslovak (comparative more Czechoslovak, superlative most Czechoslovak)

more Czechoslovak (comparative)
most Czechoslovak (superlative)

The thieves got away with very little money, however—about 10 German marks, a few Czechoslovak crowns, and some 10 Belgian francs—so the share-out between four of them would be very small and disappointing.

1943 September and October, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1934)—IV”, in Railway Magazine, page 288

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Czechoslovakia or its people.


Han Chinese

See Han for more historical information.

About 98 per cent of Taiwan's inhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast. Taiwan's other two per cent are from one of the nine indigenous tribes, which are scattered throughout the island but largely concentrated along the east coast and in the Central Mountain Range.

2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent, →OCLC, page 103, column 2

Referring to the largest ethnic group native to China.

漢族的

referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China


Han Chinese

Lueyang county is a mountainous county located in the Qing mountains in the far south of Shaanxi province, far from Xi'an, on the borders of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It has a relatively small population—about 200,000. Before the Tang dynasty, Lueyang was occupied mostly by minority Chinese, who were defeated by the Han Chinese, and most were forced to migrate to other places.

2007, Marcus W. Feldman, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Shuzhuo Li, Xiaoyi Jin, Nan Li, “Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China”, in Anne H. Gauthier, C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Shripad Tuljapurkar, editors, Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations: Riding the Age Waves, volume 2, Springer, →OCLC, page 144

The largest ethnic group native to China.

ဟန်လူမျိုး

the largest ethnic group native to China


Kyivan

Kyivan (comparative more Kyivan, superlative most Kyivan)

more Kyivan (comparative)
most Kyivan (superlative)

From Kyiv + -an, from Ukrainian Ки́їв (Kýjiv).

Of or associated with the city of Kyiv (the capital city of Ukraine).


Celtiberian

Celtiberian
Celtiberian language
Celtiberians

A member of a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during the Roman Empire.


East Slav

A member of the East Slavic peoples, including the Belarusians, Russians, Rusyns, and Ukrainians.


Vesuvian

One who inhabits the area around Mount Vesuvius.


Sienese

Sienese (comparative more Sienese, superlative most Sienese)

more Sienese (comparative)
most Sienese (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Siena in central Italy, or its school of painting in the 13th and 14th centuries.


Denverite

The native Denverite decided to go to University in Boulder.

The latest facilities include a new C. B. & Q. westbound express, called the Overnite Denverite, covering the distance in 17 hr. 20 min., and an acceleration of the C. & N. W.-U. P. westbound Columbine to the same figure.

1939 September, “Overseas Railways: More American Accelerations”, in Railway Magazine, page 214


Okie

Will Rogers is considered a famous Okie.

When, in high school, I was at the depth of my self-loathing-as-sissy, a brilliant young man arrived in Chickasha to become choral director at the high school. My friends and I had never met anyone like him: urbane, brilliant, dedicated to professional standards, a real taskmaster, who seemed to care for us little Okie hicks.

1979 August 11, Laud Humphreys, “Courage, Sisters and Brothers!”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 5

(US, informal, sometimes derogatory) A person from Oklahoma.


Eurasiatic

A hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.


contactee

He believes the contactees (those who claim to have actual contact with beings from outer space) are actually creating a new theology.

1966 May 11, “Harvard Astronomers Claim UFO's Are Based on Illusion and Religion”, in Harvard Crimson

The “contactees” or “saucerians” surfaced in 1952 in southern California. They presented themselves as selected by superior beings from other planets for a special assignment—save the world.

2001, David A. Clary, Before and After Roswell, page 63

(ufology, dated) A person who has been contacted by alien beings from outer space.


space alien

What would be the first question to ask a space alien newly arrived on planet Earth?

1997 July 1, Janet Maslin, “Oh, Aliens: Business As Usual”, in New York Times

(chiefly US) An extraterrestrial being; a visitor from outer space.


Charlottetonian

A native or inhabitant of Charlottetown, Canada.


Maritimer

A native or inhabitant of the Maritime provinces.


Mississaugan

A native or inhabitant of Mississauga, Canada.


Frederictonian

A native or inhabitant of Fredericton, Canada.


Yellowknifer

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories

A native or inhabitant of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.


Aucklander

A native or resident of Auckland, New Zealand.


Saskatonian

A native or inhabitant of the city of Saskatoon (Saskatchewan, Canada).


Nevadan

A native or resident of the state of Nevada in the United States of America.


Indianan

Indianans thought of it as a war far away in which they could not become involved.

1958, Olin Dee Morrison, Indiana, Hoosier State, volume 4, page 66

(uncommon, proscribed) Synonym of Hoosier (“a native or inhabitant of Indiana”)


Hamiltonian

(mathematics) Of, attributed to or inspired by the Irish mathematician, astronomer and physicist William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865).

(mathematics, graph theory, of a graph) Containing a Hamiltonian cycle.

(historical, chiefly US, of certain fiscal policies) Advocated by American politician Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804).

Relating to James Hamilton (1769-1831), or his method of teaching languages without grammar, by a literal interlinear word-for-word translation.

Relating to Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), Scottish metaphysician.


Norseman

(historical) A medieval Scandinavian or Viking.


Nubian

An inhabitant of ancient Nubia or a person of Nubian descent.

нубі́ец

(Afrocentrism) A person with dark skin, as of Africans and people of African descent.


Nubian

Nubian (comparative more Nubian, superlative most Nubian)

more Nubian (comparative)
most Nubian (superlative)

Pertaining to Nubia, its people or its language.

нубі́йскі

pertaining to Nubia, its people or its language

(Afrocentrism) Dark-skinned, as of Africans and people of African descent.


Burgundian

/bɜːˈɡʌndɪən/

/bɜːɹˈɡʌndɪən/

From Burgundy + -an. Compare Old English Burgendan (“Burgundians”).

The extinct East Germanic language of the Burgundians.


space invader

Made popular by the early video game Space Invaders (1978).

Alternative form: space-invader

When I forget to follow the rules with my hands, feet, and mouth, I become a Space Invader! A Space Invader makes it hard for others to work, think and play in their personal space.

2023 April 21 (last accessed), Kayla Weskamp, Space Invaders: A Social Skills Game (K – 5)

When someone enters my bubble, I may feel uncomfortable. They are my space invaders.

2023 April 21 (last accessed), Diana Sylvander, Don't Be A Space Invader!- Social Story

A person who intrudes on others' personal space, making them emotionally or physically uncomfortable.


Dagestani

/ˌdæɡɪˈstɑːni/


Ingush

Ingush (comparative more Ingush, superlative most Ingush)

more Ingush (comparative)
most Ingush (superlative)

From Russian Ингуши (Inguši), from Ангушт (Angušt), a former important settlement of the people.

(inexact) Synonym of Ingushetian: of or related to Ingushetia, a Russian republic in the northeastern Caucasus.


Kalmyk

Transliteration of Russian калмы́к m anim sg (kalmýk, noun), itself a Turkic exonym ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kiāl-mak (“to stay behind”, literally “those who stayed behind”).

der

A Mongolic language, spoken in and around Kalmykia in Russia.


East African

Of, from, or pertaining to East Africa, its people, or its culture.


East German

An East German person; one who comes from or lives in East Germany.


belter

(science fiction) A person who mines asteroids for minerals or lives in the vicinity of an asteroid belt.


neotribalism

The sociological concept that humans have evolved to live in a tribal society and thus will naturally form social networks constituting new "tribes".


Brayon

From French brayer (“to break flax for spinning”).

uder

A resident of Madawaska, in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada.


Brayon

en-adj

Brayon (comparative more Brayon, superlative most Brayon)

more Brayon (comparative)
most Brayon (superlative)

Of or relating to the Brayons, their language, or their mixed French–English culture.


ufological

ufological (comparative more ufological, superlative most ufological)

more ufological (comparative)
most ufological (superlative)


goober-grabbler

From goober (“peanut”) + grabbler (“grabber, one who searches on hands and knees”).

compound

A Georgian is popularly known in the South as a ‘Gouber-grabbler’.

1869, Overland Monthly, number 3, page 129


goober grabbler

en-noun

goober grabbler (plural goober grabblers)

(Southern US, dated slang) Alternative form of goober-grabbler.


Beijinger

/beɪˈdʒɪŋə(ɹ)/

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China#English

A native or inhabitant of Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China.


Swazi

From Zulu iSwazi, after the name of an early chief, Mswati. The alternative forms come from Swazi liSwati.

A Bantu language primarily spoken in Swaziland/Eswatini and the South African regions adjacent to it.


Usonian

: Sense 1, Usona + -ian, or Usonia + -an.
: Senses 2–4, Usonia + -an.

It is hoped that every reader will have a sufficient share of the general sense of humor to enjoy, and not to take offense at, such bits of Usonian and Canadian lingo.

1956, W. L. McAtee, “Facetious Monickers for American Birds”, in American Speech, volume 31, number 3, page 180

Right below Juan Ponce is the Palace of the Fortaleza de Santa Catalina drawn in such a way so as to highlight the Puerto Rican and the Usonian flags waving above.

2003, Toshiko Mori, Materials, Fabrication + Performance: The Journal of the School of Architecture and Planning, page 121

This much was already evident in the opinions expressed by Usonian politicians and ideologues following the end of the War of 1898.

Of or relating to the United States of America.


Johnny Canuck

1869, Johnny + Canuck, a character in political cartoons.

(chiefly World War I, World War II) A Canadian soldier.


French-Canadian

en-adj

French-Canadian (comparative more French-Canadian, superlative most French-Canadian)

more French-Canadian (comparative)
most French-Canadian (superlative)

Of or relating to Francophone Canadians or French Canada.


French Canadian

(US) The French language as spoken in Canada, Canadian French.


USO

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT THE TROOPS IF I CAN’T REGALE THEM WITH TALES OF WHOREPUNCHING AND SKULLFUCKING? THREE WORDS: INDIETITS USO SHOW

2007, Jeph Jacques, Indietits: SUPPORT OUR TROOPS


Montanan

A native or resident of the state of Montana in the United States of America.


Swabian

An Upper German dialects of High German chiefly spoken in the region of Swabia.


Louisianian

From, or pertaining to, the state of Louisiana in the United States of America.


Vincentian

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

A citizen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines


Connecticuter

A native or resident of the state of Connecticut in the United States of America.


Wyomingite

A native or resident of the state of Wyoming in the United States of America.


Delawarean

A native or resident of the state of Delaware in the United States of America.


Sammarinese

Someone from San Marino or of Sammarinese descent


Saint Lucian

Someone from Saint Lucia or of Saint Lucian descent


star visitor

(informal) An extraterrestrial person who visits from a different star system.


Marshall Islander

en-noun

Marshall Islander (plural Marshall Islanders)


Pitcairner

A native or inhabitant of the Pitcairn Islands.


Solomon Islander

Solomon Islander (plural Solomon Islanders)


Hollander

From Middle English holander, Hollander; equivalent to Holland + -er; compare the German Holländer.


Brython

From Welsh Brython. Doublet of Briton and Breton.

A (historical) Briton: a member of that people that spoke Brythonic languages.


Illinoisan

/ˌɪləˈnɔɪən/

/ˌɪləˈnɔɪzən/


Illinoisan

/ˌɪləˈnɔɪən/

/ˌɪləˈnɔɪzən/


Istanbulite

(demonym) a person from or living in Istanbul


Alander

From Aland (“group of islands in the Baltic Sea”) + -er.


Gazan

A native or inhabitant of Gaza (Gaza City or the Gaza Strip in general).


Tennessean

A native or resident of the state of Tennessee in the United States of America.


Maharashtrian

en-adj

Maharashtrian (comparative more Maharashtrian, superlative most Maharashtrian)

more Maharashtrian (comparative)
most Maharashtrian (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Maharashtra, its people, culture or languages (i.e. Marathi people).


Mangalorean

Mangalorean (comparative more Mangalorean, superlative most Mangalorean)

more Mangalorean (comparative)
most Mangalorean (superlative)

Of or pertaining to the former South Canara, its people, culture or languages


North Indian

North Indian (comparative more North Indian, superlative most North Indian)

more North Indian (comparative)
most North Indian (superlative)

Of or pertaining to North India, its people, culture or languages


South Indian

South Indian (comparative more South Indian, superlative most South Indian)

more South Indian (comparative)
most South Indian (superlative)

Of or pertaining to South India, its people, culture or languages


Midwesterner

People from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Kentucky are often considered Midwesterners.


midwesterner

But he's not a native midwesterner; he came here from Portland, Oregon, in 1973 to become an architecture student at the U. of I.

1988 August 26, Sandy Henderson, “In Print: Larry Kanfer's pictures of prairie poetry”, in Chicago Reader

Alternative letter-case form of Midwesterner


Madeiran

Madeiran (comparative more Madeiran, superlative most Madeiran)

more Madeiran (comparative)
most Madeiran (superlative)


Gascon

From Middle English Gascoyne, from Anglo-Norman gascoign, gascun et al., Middle French gascon, from Latin plural Vascōnēs. Compare Basque. Doublet of Vascon.

The dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.


Magdeburgian

/ˌmaɡdəˈbɜːɡɪ.ən/

/ˌmæɡdəˈbɝɡi.ən/


Picard

From Picardy, region of northern France.


Picard

(historical) A member of an Adamite sect of the sixteenth century and earlier, in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia.


Picard

A Romance language closely related to French


Visigoth

Borrowed from Late Latin Visigothus, from Gothic. According to Mallory & Adams, possibly a tribal name derived from Proto-Germanic *wesuz (reflected in personal names such as Old High German *wisu), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus (“good, excellent”). If so, related to Proto-Celtic *wesus (found in personal names), the Italic goddess Vesuna, and Sanskrit वसु (vasu, “good, excellent”).
The term was coined by Cassiodorus under the misapprehension that it meant "west Goths".

der

Any member of an ancient East Germanic tribe, one branch of the Goths (the Ostrogoths being the other), which participated in several wars with Rome and established a kingdom with Toulouse for its capital.


Seljuk

Book of Dede Korkut
Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk
Mahmud al-Kashgari
Seljuk (warlord)

From Ottoman Turkish سلجوق (Selcuk), ultimately from Old Anatolian Turkish سلجك (Selcuk) attested in the Dede Korkut and Karakhanid سلجك (Selcuk) attested in Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, of uncertain etymology. Compare modern Turkish Selçuk.
Pelliot & al. favored derivation via Arabic سَلْجُوق (Saljūq) from Proto-Oghuz [Term?] (*Sälčük), following some accounts taking the name from Proto-Turkic *sāl (“raft”) + *-čük (“-ock, -let: forming diminutives”) from the warlord's supposed birth on a raft on the Syr Darya. There are other early Persian and Arabic transcriptions, however, including سلجوك (Saljūk), سلچوق (Salčūq), and سلجق (Saljuq). Some sources take the original form of the name to have been *Salçuğ or *Salçığ with the meaning "one who fights", "disputes", or "struggles". Some arguing for an original pronunciation of [Term?] (*Selčük) or [Term?] (*Selčuk) would derive it from an early borrowing of Persian سیل (seyl, “flood”) + *-čük (“-ock, -let: forming diminutives”); others from *Sel as an earlier name of the Muztagh Ata in the Eastern Pamirs. Caferoğlu and Gedikli argue for derivation from a modified borrowing of Old Uyghur clean, pure (sil) + Proto-Turkic *-čük.

...the House of Seljuk...

Seljuk Bey, the legendary founder of an Oghuz Turk dynasty that ruled an eponymous Sunni Muslim empire in Southwest Asia and numerous successor states, particularly in Anatolia.


Seljuk

Book of Dede Korkut
Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk
Mahmud al-Kashgari

Seljuk architecture

The designs, it is true, are more Seljuk than Ottoman (11). But Miletus was never really a Seljuk city, and of course at Constantinople the Ottomans succeeded directly to the Byzantines.

Like so many other Anatolian strongholds , Nicaea had become Seljuk without a fight, and almost at Byzantine invitation. The Turks found themselves in possession of a still impressive city.

Manisa became Seljuk in 1313 and Ottoman in 1390. The Ottoman sultans Murat II and Murat III were particularly fond of Manisa and happily resided here.

1992, Robertson McCarta, Nelles Guide: Turkey, Seven Hills Books

It became Seljuk in the 11C and Mongol in the 13C. The important medieval trading centre was used from the 16C as the residence of the 'Begs', Kurdish feudal lords who were able to maintain their independence of the Ottoman Empire ...

1989, Marianne Mehling, Turkey, Phaidon Press

This unhappy peace had been signed by March 1206 (the terminus ad quem). Given that between 13 April and 6 July 1204 Laodikeia became Seljuk, that in August (the terminus post quem) of the same year Kay-Khusraw I refused to cede Laodikeia and Chonai to Theodore I, […]

2014, Dimitri Korobeinikov, Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century, OUP Oxford, page 142

Maurozome's possessions, Laodikeia and Chonai, which had been given to him according to the treaty between Theodore I and the sultan by March 1206, finally became Seljuk in AH 603 (8 August 1206 - 27 July 1207).

2016, Kallirroe Linardou, Leslie Brubaker, Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) – Food and Wine in Byzantium: Papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, In Honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer, Routledge

Metal objects retrieved from these rooms look distinctly more Seljuk than Byzantine in nature and have resulted in our re-evaluation of when the site may have been abandoned.

2018, Sharon R. Steadman, Gregory McMahon, The Archaeology of Anatolia Volume II: Recent Discoveries (2015-2016), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 113

Of or related to Seljuk, to his dynasty, to their empire in southwestern Asia, or to the period of their rule from the 11th–14th centuries.

سَلْجُوقِيّ

Of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, and its empire


Earthman

Such dreams! Always of Mars, and during my waking hours at night my eyes always sought out the Red Planet when he was above the horizon and clung there seeking a solution of the seemingly unfathomable riddle he has presented to the Earthman for ages.

1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Master Mind of Mars, page 2

(usually science fiction) A male inhabitant of Earth.


Chicagoan

en-adj

Chicagoan (comparative more Chicagoan, superlative most Chicagoan)

more Chicagoan (comparative)
most Chicagoan (superlative)

/ʃɪˈkɑː.ɡoʊən/

/ʃɪˈkɔ.ɡoʊən/


Chicagoan

/ʃɪˈkɑː.ɡoʊən/

/ʃɪˈkɔ.ɡoʊən/


Carpathian

Carpathian (comparative more Carpathian, superlative most Carpathian)

more Carpathian (comparative)
most Carpathian (superlative)


Hollywoodian

Someone who works in the film industry in Hollywood.


Jerseyman

(dated) A male inhabitant of Jersey (the largest island of the Channel Islands).


Amsterdammer

Alternative form: Amsterdamer

A person from, or residing in, Amsterdam.

Amsterdammer

An inhabitant or a resident of Amsterdam


Mallorcan

Mallorcan (comparative more Mallorcan, superlative most Mallorcan)

more Mallorcan (comparative)
most Mallorcan (superlative)

Of, from, or relating to, Mallorca or its culture or people.


Mallorcan

The variety of Balearic Catalan spoken on Mallorca.