kalmuck (root: kalmuc)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Kal=muck

CIDE DICTIONARY

kalmuck, n. 

•  See Calmucks.  [1913 Webster]
•  A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin.  [1913 Webster]
•  A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kalmuck, adj. & n.
--adj. of a Buddhist Mongolian people living in the western USSR.
--n.
1 a member of this people.
2 the Ural-Altaic language of this people.

Etymology

Russ. kalmyk