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Ute, n.1 and a.|juːt|
Also 9 Eutaw, Utaw, etc.
[Shortening of Utah, a. Sp. Yuta an unidentified Indian language.]
A. n.
a. A Shoshonean Indian people inhabiting parts of Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico; a member of this people.
b. The language of this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Ute or their language.
1826in D. M. Frost Notes on General Ashley (1960) App. B. 136 The Eutaws and Flatheads..express a great wish that the Americans should visit them frequently. 1846G. R. Gibson Jrnl. 13 Oct. in S.W. Hist. Ser. (1935) III. 252 About fifty Ute Indians came in and held a council with Colonel Doniphan. 1846M. B. Edwards Jrnl. 2 Nov. in Ibid. (1936) IV. 212 Major Gilpin..made a long and arduous journey through the country of the Ute and Navajo. 1885D. G. Brinton in Pennsylvania Mag. Apr. 30 The simple form of the verb may convey three different ideas, as in Ute, where the word for ‘he seizes’ means also ‘the seizer’. 1907Univ. Calif. Publ. Amer. Archaeol. & Ethnol. IV. iii. 67 The Ute vocabulary was obtained, also in 1900, among the Uintah Ute. 1933[see Paiute n. b]. 1958L. C. Pritchett Cabin at Medicine Springs (1959) xxii. 199 Tha's talk of herdin' all the Utes out of Colorado. 1973A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 93 Plains lazy-stitch sewing is characteristic of the work of..the Ute of the Plateau. 1979C. McCarry Better Angels iii. iii. 180 Woolen socks, hand-knitted by Ute women. |