Yakuts

Variant of Yakut

Yakut definition

Ya·kut (yä ko̵ot′, -ko̵̅o̅t′)

noun

  1. pl. Yakuts -·kuts′ or Yakut -·kut′ a member of a people living in NE Siberia
  2. the Turkic language of this people

Etymology: Yakut saxa < *čaqa < *yaqa, edge, border

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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