| 释义 |
Miskito, a. and n.|mɪˈskɪtəʊ|
Also Misskito, Mosquito, Musquito.
[f. Misquito, a section of the eastern coast of Nicaragua.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to an American Indian people living on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua and Honduras.
B. n.
a. A member of this people.
b. The language of this people.
1789O. Equiano Interesting Narr. Life O. Equiano II. xi. 172 He had a mind for..cultivating a plantation at Jamaica and the Musquito Shore... I found with the Doctor four Musquito Indians... One of them was the Musquito king's son. 1830Honduras Almanack 11 The canoe, a paddle and a harpoon, are the Mosquito man's whole wealth. 1907F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 948/2 Mosquito Indians, a tribe named from its habitat on Mosquito lagoon. 1911Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 902/2 The Mosquito Coast is so called from its principal inhabitants, the Misskito Indians, whose name was corrupted into Mosquito by European settlers and has been entirely superseded by that form except in the native dialects. 1932U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 106. 10 Ethnographical Survey of the Miskito and Suma Indians of Honduras and Nicaragua. 1959Chambers's Encycl. I. 343/2 The Lenca, Xicaque,..and coastal Misquito of the Atlantic pocket of Nicaragua-Honduras missed the stream of Maya-Nahua influence. 1964Amer. Speech XXXIX. 47 The Mosquitos are Caribs. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 194 In Miskito, a language of Nicaragua and Honduras, one encounters the following transliterations. 1966C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Map N. Amer. Indian Lang. (caption) Misumalpan Family 1. Miskito. |