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Washoe|ˈwɒʃəʊ, -ʃuː|
Also Washo.
[Washoe ˈwášiw Washoe Indian, Washoe Indians.]
1. (A member of) a North American Indian people inhabiting the area around Lake Tahoe on the border of California and Nevada. Also attrib.
1846J. Clyman Jrnl. 4 May in C. L. Camp J. Clyman, Frontiersman (1960) 206 The tribe we are now passing through call themselves as well as understood Washee. Ibid. 8 May 207 But as the tribe of natives inhabiting this stream and the adjacent country call themselves the Washew tribe and nation I think it would [be] correct to call the stream by the same name viz Waushee River. 1860H. De Groot Sk. Washoe Silver Mines 15/2 To this place, on the approach of cold weather, not only the Washoes, whose territory lies adjacent, but also bands of the Pah-Utahs, from a greater distance repair. 1879H. R. Mighels Sage Brush Leaves 225 We saw..a..young Washoe brave escorting his wife and mother-in-law up towards the campoody. 1903Out West Apr. 439 The colors in Washoe baskets are all natural. 1947Desert Mag. Dec. 32/3 The Washoes, of whom less than 1,000 remain, live in valleys along the Sierra Nevada. 1976Amer. Speech 1974 XLIX. 287 The Indian nomenclature belongs principally to three major Numic-speaking groups (Shoshone, Northern Paiute, and Southern Paiute) and to two non-Numic tribes, the Washo and the Mohave.
2. The region inhabited by the Washoe Indians; hence, a nickname for Nevada. Also attrib.
1856San Francisco Bull. 26 May 3/2 The rumored trouble from the Indians of Carson, Wash-hoe and Walker's valley, is entirely without foundation. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It xxi. 160 Washoe is a pet nickname for Nevada. 1896C. H. Shinn Story of Mine 110 Not merchants these..but a brave, honest outdoor race whose huge Washoe wagons were the forerunners of the railroads. 1947Amer. Weekly 2 Nov. 21/3 Back in Washoe, later to become the state of Nevada, the Comstock Lode waited—waited to be discovered.
3. The language of the Washoe Indians, one of the Hokan group of languages.
1882Mag. Amer. Hist. Apr. 255 The area of the Washo languages borders to the west on the Maídu. 1921E. Sapir Language iv. 81 Washo..an Indian language of Nevada. 1968Language XLIV. 822, I am thinking of the contrast with the vowel harmony patterns in Washo.
4. Special Combs.: Washoe canary U.S. colloq., a burro; Washoe zephyr, a strong west wind that blows in Nevada.
1867Daily Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, Nevada) 8 Mar. 3/1 The discouraged ‘Washoe canary’ refuses to cheer us with its tuneful warblings. 1877W. Wright Hist. Big Bonanza 114 A queer genius thus described the donkey, called by everybody in that region, ‘The Washoe Canary’. 1947Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 10 May 32/2 He is..discoursing on the Washoe zephyr and the Washoe canary.
1865Washoe (Nevada) Times 4 Mar. 3/2 We have heard of hail and chain-lightning, etc., but ye gentle Washoe zephyr can discount all and everything in that line. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It xxi. 159 According to custom the daily ‘Washoe Zephyr’ set in; a soaring dust-drift..came with it, and the capital of the Nevada Territory disappeared from view. 1947Washoe zephyr [see Washoe canary above]. |