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Nootka, n. and a.|ˈnuːtkə, ˈnʊtkə|
[f. Nootka Sound, an inlet on the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.]
A. n.
a. A North American Indian people of north-western Washington state and Vancouver Island; a member of this people.
b. The Wakashan language of the Nootka people.
[1841Jrnl. R. Geogr. Soc. XI. 221 The second or Southern Family of the insular tribes may be also denominated Nootka–Columbian, from the two places in which they have had most intercourse with Europeans.] 1846H. Hale Rep. U.S. Exploring Exped. VI. 198 (heading) The North-Oregon division. All the tribes north of the Columbia..belong to this division... The Nootkas..also belong to it. 1868G. M. Sproat Scenes Stud. Savage Life iv. 22 The men (the Nootkahs) are below the middle height, with thick-set limbs, broad faces..and rough, coppery, and tanned skins. 1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races of Pacific States I. iii. 176 The Nootkas are of less than medium height..but rather strongly built. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 82/1 The Nootka form one branch of the great Wakashan family. 1915E. Sapir Abnormal Types of Speech in Nootka 1 In Nootka there are special words used in speaking of obscene matters to or in the presence of women. 1934Language X. 122 In Nootka a monosyllabic word may end in a consonant or a long vowel, but never in a short vowel. 1959Chambers's Encycl. I. 339/2 The tribes of the coast and islands of north-west Canada comprise..southward, coast Salish, Nootka, Chinook, [etc.]. 1972Language XLVIII. 274 Languages like Nootka, in which it seems difficult to distinguish between nominal and verbal roots.
B. adj.
1. Pertaining to or designating the Nootkas or their language.
1846H. Hale Rep. U.S. Exploring Exped. VI. 220 We might..add to the synopsis and map the Nootka Family, comprising the tribes of Vancouver Island. 1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races of Pacific States I. iii. 177 The Nootka complexion..is decidedly light. 1890J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 113 Amongst the Nootka Indians of British Columbia, when a bear had been killed, it was brought in and seated before the head chief. 1915E. Sapir Abnormal Types of Speech in Nootka 3 More specialized Nootka examples to be given presently. 1955P. Drucker Indians of Northwest Coast 12 They [sc. the Chinook Indians] traded slaves from the Californian hinterland up the coast for Nootka canoes.
2. Designating trees native to the Pacific coast of North America, as Nootka (false-) cypress, Nootka Sound cypress, a coniferous tree, Chamæcyparis nootkatensis, of the family Cupressaceæ, also known as the yellow cedar; Nootka fir = Douglas fir (Douglas1).
1892A. C. Apgar Trees Northern U.S. 195 Nootka Sound Cypress... Tree 100 ft. high in Alaska. 1897G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 79 Yellow Cedar... [Also called] Nootka Cypress... Nootka Sound Cypress. 1957M. Hadfield Brit. Trees 116 The Nootka cypress grows on the Pacific coast of North America, from southern Alaska to southern Oregon. 1969T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 33/2 The Nootka false-cypress..has quadrangular, drooping branchlets and leaves without white markings on their undersides. A native from Oregon to Alaska, this slender tree is often 120 feet tall. 1974Country Life 12 Dec. 1855/1 Two big Nootka cypresses (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis).
1803A. B. Lambert Descr. Genus Pinus I. 51 Nootka Fir... A specimen in the Banksian herbarium, brought home by Mr. Menzies, by whom it was discovered on the North-west coast of America. 1889G. S. Boulger Uses of Plants vii. 186 Pseudotsuga Douglasii, Carrière, the Oregon Pine, or Douglas or Nootka Fir, abundant in North-west America, furnishes fine, straight, and durable timber. 1957N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Dec. 59/2 Nootka fir, Douglas fir.
So ˈNootkan a. and n.
1841Jrnl. R. Geogr. Soc. XI. 224 Whoever will compare the list of Nootkan words..with the Tlaoquatch vocabulary..will find that there is very little difference between them. Ibid. 225 The Kawitchen tribe..appears..to be a mixed race, compounded of Shahaptans and Nootkans. 1848Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. London I. 234 Nootkans. 1973Amer. Speech 1969 XLIV. 232 Chinook jargon [has]..Nootkan and Algonkian lexical elements. |