| 释义 |
Menominee U.S.|mɪˈnɒmɪniː|
Also Menomini, -onee.
[ad. Ojibwa manōminī, lit. ‘wild-rice people’.]
1. The name of a tribe of Algonquian Indians first discovered near the mouth of the Menominee River in Michigan and Wisconsin; also attrib.; also applied to the language spoken by this people.
1762T. Hutchins Jrnl. 26 June in Mich. Hist. Mag. (1926) X. 369, I delivered the same Message to the Meyno⁓meneys that I had done to the Sax and Reynard Nations. 1830[see half-blood 4]. 1835C. F. Hoffman Winter in West II. 3 The Mè-nó-mé-né, or wild-rice-eaters, is a broken band that served with effect against the Sauks and Foxes in the Indian difficulties of 1832. 1920L. Bloomfield in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 90 Have been writing down Menominee words and stories. They are a delightful people, of good culture: it must have been an elaborate and beautiful culture 200 years ago. 1922― in Ibid. 99 These stems are a living (freely formed) derivation in Menomini. 1953A. Huxley Let. 17 Aug. (1969) 683 The Menomini are Indians in a reservation in Wisconsin. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. i. 2 To learn Greek or Menomini..it is not enough to read through a compact presentation of paradigms or rules. 1975Times 8 Jan. 6 Troops of the Wisconsin National Guard were called out today to deal with a group of Menominee Indians occupying a large estate... The Menominees have a reservation near by.
2. In full, Menominee whitefish. The round whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in lakes of northern North America.
1884G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Nat. Hist. Aquatic Animals 541 Coregonus quadrilateralis. The only name which I have heard applied to this fish is that of ‘Meno⁓monee White-fish’. 1902Rep. U.S. Comm. Fisheries 1901 653 Table showing, by States, the products of the fisheries of the Great Lakes in 1899..White-fish (Menominee) fresh..White-fish (Menominee) salted. 1944G. L. Nute Lake Superior 186 Menominees, a kind of whitefish, are listed at 14,940 pounds, all caught in American waters. |