|kämaə|sēn, |kam-, -sin noun
also ka·mass ˈkäməs, ˈkam- ; or ka·mas·sian kəˈmashən, -asēən ; or ka·mas·sin like kamasin
( plural kamasin or kamasins )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Kamasin, Kamass, Kamassin from Russian Kamasintsy (plural), from Kamasin Kangmāãžə; Kamassian probably from Kamass + -ian
1.
a. : a Samoyed people on the upper Yenisei river, Siberia, who are ethnically largely extinct or absorbed into the Russian culture by intermarriage
b. : a member of such people
2. : the Uralic language of the Kamasin people