cheremis

Noun cheremis has 2 senses

• cheremis(n = noun.person) cheremiss, mari - a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia;
is a member of russia, russian soviet federated socialist republic, soviet russia
is a kind of russian

• cheremis(n = noun.communication) cheremiss, mari - the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis;
is a kind of volgaic