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Papago, n. and a.|ˈpæpəgəʊ, ˈpɑːpəgəʊ|
[Sp., ad. native name.]
A. n.
a. An Indian people of the south-western U.S. and northern Mexico; a member of this people.
b. The Uto-Aztecan language of this people and (in some uses) of the closely related Pima Indians; also called Pima.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Papago or their language.
1839A. Forbes California 162 On the River Gila..Papaga, 4000. 1864Harper's Mag. Dec. 25/1 The Papago Indians also do good service by..killing the hostile savages. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 538/2 The inhabitants of Arizona are mostly Indians... 4000 Papagoes, a wandering tribe in the south-eastern part of the territory, have no grounds allotted them. 1878R. J. Hinton Hand-bk. Arizona 227 South and west of these lie the old Papago villages and wells. 1911H. B. Wright Winning of Barbara Worth 101 She pointed to a smoky, copper-colored Papago in a green headcloth and decorated shirt. 1912C. Lumholtz New Trails in Mexico 185 Hydrophobia is called in Papago nótakik. 1936Univ. Arizona Gen. Bull. iii. 118 These caterpillars feed on a spreading four-o'clock or on the Papago spinach on the desert. 1946E. E. Cummings Let. 31 Jan. (1969) 170, I sat opposite a Papago Indian. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. viii. 162 Certain problems of translating magic incantations of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory i. 10 The situation described here is based to a certain limited extent on that existing in Papago, a Uto-Aztecan language of the American Southwest. 1973A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 13 Modeling and paddling is a technique..still used by the Papago and Yuma of Arizona. 1977Language LIII. 459 L now recognizes..that Papago hɨjɨl and PaPay..probably do not belong in this cognate set. |