| 释义 |
Kuki1|ˈkuːkɪ|
[Native name.]
Any one of several peoples inhabiting the hills of Manipur and Mizoram, on the Indo-Burmese border; a member of one of these peoples; also, their language. Also attrib. and Comb., as Kuki-Chin [Chin n.2] (see quot. 1954).
1799Asiatick Researches II. 188 If a Cúcì assail the house of an enemy..he acquires honour and celebrity in his tribe. Ibid. 193 A party of Cúcìs visited the late Charles Croftes..at Jáfarabàd, in the spring of 1776, and entertained him with a dance. 1803Ibid. VII. 186 The Kookies choose the steepest and most inaccessible hills to build their villages..which..are called..in the Kookie language, K'hooah. 1871E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. xi. 424 The Kukis of Assam think that the ghost of every animal a Kuki kills in the chase or for the feast will belong to him in the next life. 1872E. T. Dalton Descr. Ethnol. Bengal 75 English..one..Kuki khut. 1885E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 3) II. 618/2 The new Kuki clans are presided over by rajas and muntris. 1927Blackw. Mag. June 816/1 The Kuki alone of all these hill tribes understands the value of combination. Ibid. 817/1 Roaring and retaliation keep alive a warlike and truculent spirit among the Kukis. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 389 Arakan-Burmese, comprising Kuki-Chin.., Old Kuki (Rānkhōl, Shö or Khyang, Khami, etc.), and Burmese. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet vi. 367 Manipuri or Meithei, a Kuki⁓chin speech. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Ling. 116 Kuki-Chin, a group of dialects (Lai, Lushei, Meithei, Tashon, etc.), constituting a subdivision of the Arakan-Burmese branch of the Tibeto-Burmese sub-family of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 219 But the Assam Battalion kept coming across the road, Kukis, Karsis, and all the other tribesmen. 1972Language XLVIII. 476 The crucially important and ramified group of Tibeto-Burman languages known variously as Kukish, Kuki-Chin, or Kuki-Chin-Naga, spoken in Assam and Western Burma. |