Ananino

adjective

Ana·​ni·​no

əˈnänyēˌnō,

-änəˌ-

: of or belonging to a culture of east central Europe transitional between the Bronze and Iron ages and possibly ancestral to the culture of the early Volga Finns

Word History

Etymology

from Ananino, town in the Kirov region, U.S.S.R., its type station

First Known Use

1927, in the meaning defined above

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