Komi

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A Finno-Ugric language currently spoken by 200,000 to 400,000 people, depending on source and definition of "speaker", in northeastern European part of Russia.
• republic Russia (country) .
• region Russia (country).

Noun

• A member of an ethnic group chiefly consisting of Komi speakers and descendants of Komi speakers who don't speak the language.

Related

Similar words

• Zyrian, Zyryan
• Zyrian

Narrower meaning words

• Komi-Permyak
• Komi-Yazva
• Komi-Zyrian

Broader meaning words

• Permic

Origin

• An endonym, used by the Finno-Permic Komi people to refer to themselves.
• It has been compared to Uralic terms for "man" or "human", such as Samoyed qum.
• An alternative explanation derives it from the name of the River Kama, but if there's any relation, it might as well be vice versa.
• The word can also be compared to the Finnish komea ("handsome, beautiful").