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Guanche|ˈgwɑːntʃeɪ|
Also Guancho.
[Sp.]
One of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands, who were absorbed by the Spanish on their conquest of the islands in the fifteenth century. Also, the language of the Guanches.
1599T. Nicols in Hakluyt Voy. (ed. 2) II. ii. 5 These people were called Guanches, naturally they spake another language cleane contrary to the Canarians. 1797Encycl. Brit. IV. 81/1 The inhabitants are chiefly Spaniards; though there are some of the first people remaining, whom they call Guanches, who are somewhat civilized by their intercourse with the Spaniards. 1814H. M. Williams tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. 117 Santa Cruz, the Annaza of the Guanches, is a neat town, with a population of 8000 souls. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 796/1 Many of the Guanches fell in opposing the Spanish invasion. 1884tr. De Candolle's Orig. Cultiv. Plants 320 It is not known whether the Guanchos (the Berber people of the Canaries) knew the bean. 1890J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. i. 19 In times of drought the Guanches of Teneriffe led their sheep to sacred ground. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 366 To these [dialects] must be added the Guanche of the Canary Islands, which became extinct in the seventeenth century. |