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Ashanti|əˈʃæntɪ|
Also 8 Assanti, etc., 9– (now rare) Ashantee.
[Native name.]
One of the Akan peoples of West Africa; a member of this people. Also, their language. Hence Aˈshantian a.
1705tr. Bosman's Descr. Coast of Guinea vi. 76 The Plunder after this Victory took up the Asiantines fifteen days time... This messenger of ours, who is now in the Asiantean Camp. 1721J. Atkins in New Coll. Voyages & Travels (1745) II. iii. iv. 454/1 It seems, the Santîs, or Assantîs..had lately..driven them from their Habitations. 1824J. Dupuis Jrnl. Residence in Ashantee i. 21 A party of Ashantees..suddenly approached. 1831H. I. Rickett (title) Narrative of the Ashantee War. 1873J. Marshall Let. 9 Nov. in W. R. Brownlow Memoir J.M. (1890) ii. 19 His party had fired on some Ashantis two days before.
1874J. G. Christaller et al. (title) A Dictionary, English, Tshi-Asànté-Akra. 1875― Gram. Tshi p. xv, As a common name of the ‘Asante and Fante Language’ we have put down the name Tshi. 1880G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1882) I. xvi. 227 [The features] of his companion were of almost brutish Ashantian or Dahomian ruggedness. 1880J. Marshall Let. 9 Nov. in W. R. Brownlow Memoir J.M. (1890) iii. 51 Since the Ashanti War, communication is becoming more constant..with the interior. 1962Listener 25 Jan. 156/1 There should be no reference to Fantis, Ashantis, Ewes, Gas, Dagombas, ‘strangers’, and so forth, but we should all call ourselves Ghanaians. |