| 释义 |
Yurok, n. and a.|ˈjʊərɒk|
Also 9 Euroc, Youruk.
[a. Karok yúruk (a considerable distance) downriver; cf. yurúkˈvarara Yurok Indian, lit. ‘downriver person’.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) an Indian people of northern California.
b. The language of this people, distantly related to Algonquian and Wiyot.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating this people or their language.
1851[see Karok]. 1872Overland Monthly Apr. 326/2, I have seen a half-dozen tatterdemalion Eurocs..come rushing down through the chaparral. 1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. 641 On the lower Klamath, the Euroc language prevails. 1904Univ. Calif. Publ. Amer. Anthrop. & Ethnol. II. iii. 95 The belief in a previous world..is not uncommon. The Torint of the Eskimo..the Waghe of the Yurok. 1913Amer. Anthropologist XV. 621 Our knowledge of Wiyot and Yurok is still very incomplete. 1921[see culturally adv.]. 1946L. Bloomfield in H. Hoijer et al. Ling. Structures Native America 85 Two languages of California, Wiyot and Yurok, have been suspected of kinship with Algonquian. 1954E. A. Hoebel Law of Primitive Man ii. 25 An aggrieved Yoruk who felt he had a legitimate claim engaged the legal services of two nonrelatives from a community other than his own. 1962[see Karok]. 1973A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 47 Half-twist overlay was used by the Yurok..for fine flexible mats. 1977R. Holland Self & Social Context ii. 40 Witness the astonishingly beautiful analogy between the oral anxiety of the Yurok people and the uncertainty of the salmon run on which they depend as a culture. 1981A. B. Kehoe N. Amer. Indians vii. 376/2 Macro-Algonkian is represented by two language isolates, Yurok..and Wiyot. |