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Mord•vin
(môrd′vin),USA pronunciation n.
- a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities in the middle Volga basin, esp. between Nizhni Novgorod and Saratov.
- the Finnic language of the Mordvin, with two major dialects, sometimes considered distinct languages.
- Russian mordvín, derivative of the collective noun, nominal mordvá, of uncertain origin, originally
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