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Ancestry vs Erzyan - What's the difference?

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ancestry

English

Alternative forms

* ancestrie (obsolete) * auncestrie (obsolete) * auncestry (obsolete)

Noun

(ancestries)
  • Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
    • Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.
  • A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

    • Related terms

    * ancestor

    erzyan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Mordvin person speaking Erzya or of such ancestry.

    • Synonyms

    * Erzya

    References

    * An Ethnic History of Russia: Pre-revolutionary Times to the Present by Tatiana Mastyugina and Lev Perepelkin with Vitaly Naumkin and Irina Zviagelskaia, eds.; Greenwood Press, London, 1996; pg. 133.