/nen"ets/ , n. , pl. Nentsi, Nentsy /nent"see/ , ( esp. collectively ) Nenets .
1. a member of a reindeer-herding Uralic people of far northern European Russia and adjacent areas of Siberia as far as the Yenisei River delta.
2. the Samoyedic language of the Nenets. Also called Yurak .
[ nénets (with -ets falsely construed as the Russ suffix) nenets man, Nenets ]