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Araucanian, n. and a.|ærɔːˈkeɪnɪən|
[f. Sp. Araucanía, the name of a region of southern Chile + -an: cf. Sp. araucano.]
A. n.
1. A member of the Mapuche Indian people of central Chile and Argentina.
[1703A. & J. Churchill in Coll. Voy. (1704) III. v. xxii. 150/2 This Declaration reach'd the Ears of the Araucanos, and there assembled at Arauco Sixteen Caciques, and many other Captains, to Treat about what was best for them to do.] 1809R. Alsop tr. J. I. Molina's Geogr., Nat. & Civil Hist. Chili II. ii. i. 53 The Araucanians..derive their appellation..from the province of Arauco. 1828Kaleidoscope 8 July 2/1 The interpreter..an Araucanian by birth. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 701/1 The Araucanians..occupy about 200 miles of the sea-coast, between the 37th and 39th parallels. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XIV. 223/1 The native Araucanians..defeated and killed him [sc. Pedro de Valdivia] at Tucapel on 1 Jan. 1554. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 245 Lenz observed that in the seventeenth century Araucanians had difficulty pronouncing the /dr/ group of Chilean Spanish.
2. (Any of) a group of languages spoken by the Araucanian Indians (see quot. 1977).
1809R. Alsop tr. J. I. Molina's Geogr., Nat. & Civil Hist. Chili II. 331 The original language of Chili, generally called the Araucanian, is denominated by the natives Chili dugu, the Chilian tongue. 1911Encycl. Brit. I. 811/2 Araucanian, Pampas. 1970Chicago Linguistics Soc. VI. 57 (heading) Mayan affinities with Araucanian. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index World's Lang. 287 According to the Penutian hypothesis, Araucanian and the Chipayan family of languages are members of the [Penutian] phylum... In the classification by Greenberg..Araucanian and Chipayan are placed in the Andean Equatorial phylum.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Araucanians or their language.
1809R. Alsop tr. J. I. Molina's Geogr., Nat. & Civil Hist. Chili II. ii. i. 54 Those Spaniards, who had left the army in the Netherlands to serve in Chili, gave to this country the name of Araucanian Flanders, or the Invincible State. 1828Kaleidoscope 22 July 23/3 The Adjutant, Talmayancu, was an Araucanian Indian. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 675/1 The language of Chile is Spanish, pronounced..with the sounds of the Araucanian language substituted. 1921Chambers's Jrnl. June 382/1 Their having learned a thing or two from the Araucanian medicine-women.
1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 73 In South America, we note..the Araucanian [family] in Chile, and Kechuan, the language of the Inca civilization. 1957Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1956 xxvi. 24 Those influences which were really Araucanian were limited to the lowest classes or to Indian bilinguals. 1985Manelis Klein & Stark S. Amer. Indian Lang. xviii. 713 An analysis of a traditional Araucanian tale. |