cheremiss

noun, plural Ma·ris, (especially collectively) Ma·ri for 1.

1. a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
2. the Finnic language of the Mari.

noun, plural Cher·e·mis·es, (especially collectively) Cher·e·mis.

1. Mari.

noun

1. plural -miss or -mis a member of an Ugrian people of the Volga region, esp of the Mari El Republic
2. Also called: Mari the language of this people, belonging to the Finno-Ugric family

noun plural Mari or Maris

1. another name for Cheremiss